Lullaby For The Moon : Japanese Music For Koto And Shakuhachi
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1998-02-10
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Komoriuta: Lullaby (Variations)-Hazan Yamamoto, Utazumi Kunishige
- Toge-Hachi-Ri: Eight Miles through a Mountain Pass-Tozan Tanno, Tozan Hara
- Kuon No Hikari: Eternal Lights - Hozan Yamamoto, Utazumi Kunishige
- Umi: Sea Fantasy - Tozan Hara, Soyo Nakamura, Reiko Nakamura, Miyoshi Hoshida
- Muttsu: Six Fragments For Koto (Variations) - Osamu Shimizu, Keiko Matsuo
- Sakura: Cherry Blossoms (Trio On A Theme By Sajura) - Kozan Kitahara, Shizuo Aoki
- Kojo: Moonlight On A Ruined Castle (Variations On A Theme) - Kozan Kitahara, Shizuo
- Chidori: The Ploughman's Song - Shinzo Miya
Music reviews of Lullaby For The Moon : Japanese Music For Koto And Shakuhachi
Music Review: Great shakuhachi, not sure about the koto
Rating: 4 Stars
I like most of this CD, but one or two pieces were major disappointments. First, the good news. I absolutely loved the first two shakuhachi (bamboo flute) pieces by composer Inzan Tanaka. They are meditative yet soaring, and in particular, the "Eight Miles through a Mountain Pass" truly conjurs the image of winds blowing through a craggy, mountainous pass. It's like listening to a sumi-e ink painting come to life--one of those wonderful long scrolls on rice papers with cloudy and dark ink brushing out mountains, fog and pines. I was disappointed with the variations on "Moonlight on a Ruined Castle." This is a traditional tune, familiar to many people. In fact, French virtuoso flutist Jean Pierre Rampal includes it as a concert piece. But the variations by composer Yamakawa are unsubtle and frankly unskilled. That made me sorry, because this is a favorite song and I just didn't like the awkward-sounding variations.
In general, on this CD, I liked the shakuhachi playing much more than the koto, even though normally I like koto music better than the sometimes eerie-sounding Japanese bamboo flute. On the whole, I like this CD a lot, with the reservations I mentioned.
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