Credits:

Cyborg 009, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Description:

The complete concert music of Taichiro Kosugi, favourite pupil of Akira IfukubeAkira Ifukube is famous for his music for the film Godzilla. Among his pupils, Taichiro Kosugi was one of those his teacher trusted most, and he went on to write music for more than 300 films, including the Toei animated series Cyborg 009 (1966-68), Toei’s Miyamoto Musashi series directed by Tomu Uchida and Nikkatsu’s The Rambling Guitarist series. Until now he has been known only for his film scores, but in 2007 a number of manuscripts of concert works he had written during his lifetime were discovered at the Kosugi family home. This prompted the present CD project, “The Concert Music of Taichiro Kosugi”, conceived to record the rediscovered works one by one and build them into a complete edition. Six years went into the production – editing the scores, negotiating with performers, researchin