Credits:

Ichiro Nodaira

Description:

“Yoshio Mamiya’s 90th Birthday Commemoration” “The 17th Yoshio Sagawa Music Award Concert”A complete recording featuring “Interlude for the Queen Monkey,” a valuable new work in the Japanese music sceneYoshio Mamiya is one of Japans leading contemporary composers. At the 2019 regular concert by Orchestra Nipponicaheld as the Yoshio Mamiya 90th Birthday Commemoration and serving as the 17th Yoshio Sagawa Music Award Award Ceremonya precious work in the history of Japanese music was revived. That work is now finally being released on CD for the first time. Nihon-zaru Sukitrime is a grand opera that Yoshio Mamiya himself regarded as a monumental work and which stands as a pinnacle in the history of Japanese opera. This complete recording includes the new piece Interlude of the Queen Monkey, composed specifically to be performed alongside this work, which was revived for the first time in 53 year