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Hatano Mutsumi

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The sixth release on Mutsumi Hatano’s own Sonnet labelThe world of Yuji Takahashi’s songs, born and nurtured through dialogue”Where there is music, no one is alone.” – Yuji Takahashi”Sleepless Night – The Yuji Takahashi Songbook” is the sixth album on Sonnet, the label founded by Mutsumi Hatano. Yuji Takahashi, one of Japan’s foremost composers and pianists, and Mutsumi Hatano, a mezzo-soprano equally at home in early music and the contemporary repertoire, have worked together on a great many projects over the years.The programme includes “Setting Out”, a new work written for Hatano setting three poems from Kazue Morisaki’s collection “Sasabue Hitotsu” (2004), and “I Am Twelve” from 1977 – works in which the words of poets reach across time to speak directly to the heart.”I Am Twelve” is a song cycle in which Takahashi set eleven poems from the collection of the same name by Masafumi Oka, who