Celebration Of Japanese & European Music, Liszt Academy, 25 February

  • 23 Feb 2015 8:01 AM
Celebration Of Japanese & European Music, Liszt Academy, 25 February
The concert features much loved pieces of contemporary Japanese and European music, performed by exceptionally talented Japanese and Hungarian students of Liszt Academy. Jyo Hisaishi is a Japanese composer and musical director best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki.

The concert features much loved pieces of contemporary Japanese and European music, performed by exceptionally talented Japanese and Hungarian students of Liszt Academy. Jyo Hisaishi is a Japanese composer and musical director best known for his work with animator Hayao Miyazaki.

"Princess Mononoke" is a song composed for an animation film with the same title, while "Meguru Kisetsu [The Changing Seasons]" is an image song of Kiki's Delivery Service, and "Stand Alone" is a theme song of the Japanese public television’s special drama Saka no Ue no Kumo [Cloud Over the Slope] which was broadcast over three years from 2009 to 2011.

Senjyu Akira's piano concerto "Shukumei", which was used in the television adaptation entitled Castle of Sand of a novel by the famous Japanese author, Matsumoto Seichō, hallmarks the concert.

Sponsor: The Japan Foundation, Budapest

Tickets: Entry is free.

Venue: Solti Hall
Starts: 7 p.m.

Hisaishi Jyo: Princess Mononoke
Hisaishi Jyo: Majyo no takkyubin (Kiki's delivery service) – Meguru Kisetsu (Season over)
Hisaishi Jyo: Stand Alone
Yoshida Makiko (soprano) Hattori Shino (piano)

Weber: Andante e Rondo Ungarese, op,35
Yoshino Chiori (bassoon)

Liszt: Piano Concerto in E flat major
Morimoto Miho (piano)

interval

Senjyu Akira: Piano Concerto 'Shukumei (Fate)
Mukeda Narihito (piano)

Beethoven:
Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 56
Hanaoka Saki (violin), Hashimoto Atsushi (violoncello), Mukeda Narihito (piano)

Orchestra formed of Liszt Academy Students Conductor: Kanai Toshifumi

Source: Liszt Academy Budapest

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