Japan-Czech Inspiration: Janacek & Ifukube
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Label: Ars Produktion
Cat No: ARS38618
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 18th November 2022
Contents
Works
Japanes SuiteLachian Dances (6)
Moravian Dances (5) for orchestra, JWVI/7
Suite (Serenade), op.3, JW6/6
Artists
Pilsen Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Chuhei IwasakiWorks
Japanes SuiteLachian Dances (6)
Moravian Dances (5) for orchestra, JWVI/7
Suite (Serenade), op.3, JW6/6
Artists
Pilsen Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Chuhei IwasakiAbout
"Folk song! I have lived in the heart of it ever since my childhood. A folk melody contains the whole of man – his body, his soul, his environment, everything about him. He who is brought up on national music is growing up to become a complete human being. A folk song has one spirit, because it has within it a genuine human whose culture has been endowed by God, and not acquired from without."
With this emotional and utterly honest statement, Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) summed up his lifelong fascination with folk song during a stay in London in 1926. Folk music was an important creative inspiration for the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries and was often associated with pride and nationalism. For Janáček, folklore was undoubtedly one of the essential resources of his work as a composer, which is reflected in the three orchestral works recorded here.
The same may be said for Akira Ifukube (1914–2006), one of the greatest composers of the contemporary music scene of his native country, who gave Western listeners an insight into Japanese musical culture. His own compositional style was strongly influenced by folkloric traditions, above all by the dance performances of the Ainu people, the indigenous inhabitants of the island of Hokkaido, which he often heard in his childhood. The world of traditional Japanese music is often distant to European audiences despite their genuine efforts to understand it. Ifukube's musical language catches the attention of listeners with its use of Japanese traditional modes and its renunciation of certain methods of European music, including triadic chords and repetitions of thematic material.
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