Various: The Best of Yoshikazu Mera (BIS Audio CD)

BIS-NL-CD-5021
Total Time: 70'10 – Release: Oct 2002

EAN 7318590050217


The Best of Yoshikazu Mera

Jouzuru Hisaishi
1. Mononoke (Text: Hayao Miyazaki) 1'20

Sergei Rachmaninov
2. Vocalis, Op.34 No.14 3'33

Georg Friedrich Händel
3. Lascia ch´io pianga (Let me Lament) from Rinaldo (Text: after Tasso) 3'45

4. But who may abide... from Messiah (Text: Charles Jennens) 4'20

Johann Sebastian Bach
5. Von den Stricken meiner Sünden (From the Fetters of my Sins) from St. John Passion, BWV245 4'32

6. Bereite dich, Zion... (Prepare Yourself, Zion...) from Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 5'05

Georg Friedrich Händel
7. Ombra mai fu (Never was Shade) from Serse (Text: Silvio Stampiglia) 2'56

Antonín Dvorák
8. Kdyz mne stará matka zpívat (Songs my Mother taught me) (Text: Adolf Heyduk) 2'01

Kosaku Yamada
9. Higanbana (Amaryllises) (Text: Hakushu Kitahara) 3'40

Ikuma Dan
10. Komoriuta (Lullaby) (Text: Akira Nogami) 4'21

Yoshinao Nakada
11. Yomise no uta (Song of the Market Stalls) (Text: Sou Nishizawa) 2'11

Kosaku Yamada
12. Akatonbo (The Red Dragonfly) (Text: Rofu Miki) 2'14

Fumio Hayasaka
13. Uguisu (Nightingale) (Text: Haruo Sato) 4'16

Shinpei Nakayama
14. Kachuusha no uta (Katjusha´s Song) (Text: Hogetsu Shimamura/Gyofu Souma) 5'16

Touroku Takagi
15. Mizuiro no Warutsu (Light Blue Waltz) (Text: Kou Fujiura) 3'42

Masao Koga
16. Kage wo shitaite (I Long for a Shadow) (Text: composer) 5'44

Gil Goldstein
17. Music of the Spheres (Text: composer) 5'33

Jouzuru Hisaishi
18. Mononoke (long version) 3'29

Yoshikazu Mera, counter-tenor
Natsuko Uchiyama, piano
Kikuko Ogura, piano
Bach Collegium Japan, ensemble
Various musicians, ensemble
Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, orchestra
Karen Orchestra, orchestra
Ghibli Orchestra, orchestra
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
Shigeo Genda, conductor