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Ayako Tanaka

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A song cycle written for the soprano Ayako Tanaka by one of Argentina’s leading composers. [The Japanese edition includes Japanese liner notes and translations of the sung texts.]Esteban Benzecry (b. 1970) was born in Argentina and is based in France. Like Ginastera, Villa-Lobos and Chavez before him, he continues the tradition of musical exchange between Europe and Latin America that has flourished since the early twentieth century, and his richly coloured works have attracted wide attention.This album presents three works by Benzecry, including the song cycle he composed for the coloratura soprano Ayako Tanaka. Captivated by her voice, Benzecry wrote songs that exploit both its delicacy and its extraordinary technique, taking love, the origins of existence and sacred rivers as his motifs and fusing Japanese and Argentinian culture.The Violin Concerto weaves in folk motifs and rhythms of South