My Choice Fumio Yasuda

• 1Yasuda: Kakyoku01:42
• 2Yasuda: Death Sentiment IV05:41
• 3Yasuda: Song of Lydia02:23
• 4Yasuda: Rain Landscape04:51
• 5Verdi: O Don Fatale (Don Carlo)04:59
• 6Yasuda: Accordion Concerto: Last Choral10:50
• 7Yasuda: Gig03:36
• 8Yasuda: A Song for Lucrezia03:29
• 9Yasuda: Vexations04:15
• 10Traditional: Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush02:39
• 11Yasuda: Las Vegas Rhapsody - Epilogue03:46
• 12Yasuda: Waltz for Monique03:30
• 13Yasuda: Elegy in E Minor04:26
• 14Yasuda: Eternal Love06:47
• Total Runtime01:02:54

Info for My Choice

The poet among contemporary composers. Magical arrangements of the world successes of Verdi, Satie and children's songs from the Mother Goose collection. Fumio Yasuda describes his music succinctly with the attempt to invent something new. He names the late romantic compositions of Franz Schmidt as decisive influences, but also John Cage's transgressions of boundaries. Nobuyoshi Araki brought Yasuda together with Stefan Winter 20 years ago. Over ten albums were created. For the anniversary of Winter & Winter, Yasuda meets his selection: My Choice. The FAZ writes: If you get involved in your music \- which is not a question of free will: once ... put it on, you will want to hear it again and again.

Fumio Yasuda, piano
Forma Antiqva
Kammerorchester Basel
Teodoro Anzellotti, direction

Fumio Yasuda
born 1953 in Tokyo, graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Composition major. Starts composing at the age of 17, soon finds his interest in improvisational music and performs together with one of the most known improvisers in Japan, guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi as a pianist. From 1995, he starts his musical collaboration with the photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. The main compositions performed from Araki's projects are, "Tokyo Comedy" (1997 in Wien), "Shijo" (1998 in Hamburg), "1999 Taipei - Summer" (1999 in Taipei) and the latest project was performed in Prato, Italy in 2000. Fumio Yasuda has recorded the albums »Kakyoku«, »Charmed with Verdi«, »Schumann's Bar Music«, »Heavenly Blue« and »Las Vegas Rhapsody«, »Berlin – Songs of love and war, peace and exile«, »Schumann's Favored Bar Songs« and »Mother Goose's Melodies« for Winter & Winter.

Already the album »Kakyoku« represents the fruits of Yasuda's ongoing collaboration with Japan's most famous photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki. In contrast to the atonality and often-challenging tenor of much of today's classical music, Yasuda's scores are remarkably accessible. At times recalling the Impressionism of post-romantic composers such as Debussy. As Araki comments, "Yasuda's music is sometimes sentimental and sometimes almost insane. It has a way of getting under one's skin and touching both body and soul."

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