Akira Ifukube - The Artistry of Akira Ifukube, Vol. 1 (Jun'ichi Hirokami)

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Composer: Akira Ifukube

• (01) Japanese Rhapsody
• (03) Triptyque Aborigene
• (06) Ballata Sinfonica

Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Jun'ichi Hirokami, conductor

Date: 1995

Label: King Record

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Akira Ifukube (31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer. He taught at the Tokyo University of the Arts (formerly Tokyo Music School), during which period he composed his first film score in 1947. Over the next fifty years, he would compose more than 250 film scores, the high point of which was his 1954 music for Ishirō Honda's Toho movie, Godzilla. Despite his financial success as a film composer, Ifukube always loved to compose classical work. Ifukube trained many younger generation composers, and also published Orchestration, a 1,000-page book on theory, widely used among Japanese composers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Ifukube

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Jun'ichi Hirokami (born May 5, 1958 in Tokyo) is a Japanese conductor. He studied conducting, piano, musicology, and viola at the Tokyo College of Music. Hirokami won the first Kondrashin International Conducting Competition in Amsterdam in September 1984 at age 26. He was Chief Conductor of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra (1991-1996), the Limburg Symphony Orchestra (1998-2000), Music Director of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (2006-2008), and Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra (2008-2022). Hirokami has led the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa since September 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junichi_Hirokami

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