BIS-CD-889
Total Time: 57'09 – Release: Jun 1997

EAN 7318590008898


Nightingale - Japanese Arts Songs

Yoshinao Nakada
1. Cherry Blossoms Lane (Text: Shu-ichi Kato) 2'24

Kosaku Yamada
Song of AIYAN (Text: Hakushu Kitahara) 2. I. NOSKAI 2'03
3. II. Rabbit-Ear Irides 1'37
4. III. Song of AIYAN 1'29
5. IV. Higanbana (Amaryllies) 3'40
6. V. Caprice 2'05

Ikuma Dan
Six Songs for Children (Text: Hakushu Kitahara) 7. I. The Weasel 1'48
8. II. Gourds 1'44
9. III. Autumn Fields 2'49
10. IV. Saury Fish 1'39
11. V. Karariko 1'39
12. VI. The Snow Maiden 2'37

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

Shiro Fukai
Japanese Flute (Texts: Hakushu Kitahara) 14. I. Ina 2'40
15. II. Sailing Out 6'15
16. III. Yanshichi of Yabe 1'43

Hikaru Hayashi
Four Songs of Dusk (Texts: Shuntaro Tanikawa) 17. I. Dusk is a huge book… 1'38
18. II. Who turns the light off… 3'38
19. III. In the next room with nobody in... 3'04
20. IV. For the night to receive the dead… 1'58

Sadao Bekku
21. Cherry Blossoms Lane (Text: Shu-ichi Kato) 4'06

Yoshikazu Mera, counter-tenor
Gunilla von Bahr, piccolo/flute/alto flute
Kikuko Ogura, piano