Composer: Toyohiko Satoh
Performer: Chiyomi Yamada, Toyohiko Satoh
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Carpe Diem
Release: 2016
Size: 946 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Nen-ne Koroichi
02. Zuizui zukkorobashi
03. Nen-nyako korochako
04. Sendo no yanma
05. If music and sweet poetry agree
06. Utsuroi bushi (Floating mind)
07. Take all my loves
08. Aka to bai
09. Variations in rondo
10. Fuki no Kyoku
11. Antagata dokosa
12. Shall I compare thee
13. Kokiriko bushi
14. Yokai
15. Kochae bushi
16. Tadayoi (Drifting)
Recorded: 15 October 2015
Recording Venue: Kirishima International Concert Hall, Japan
The Japanese word Yugen is usually defined as “an awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words.”
Toyohiko Satoh (b. 1943) chose this title for his new recording of his own compositions, which he created mostly in the last years, living in Japan and being involved in traditional Japanese arts and tea ceremony. As a performing musician and composer, he spent most of his life in Europe. Now, towards the end of his career, he shows his own understanding of cross-cultural connection between east and west as well as between classical and traditional music. Yugen contains songs and instrumental pieces that are hard to classify, but all the more beautiful and inspiring to listen to.