Japanese composer Shiro Fukai belongs to the first generation of Japanese composers to write music with Western ensembles primarily in mind. Like his near contemporary Akira Ifukube, Fukai also composed for films, perhaps most significantly Kenji Mizoguchi's The 47 Ronin. Fukai's early death at age 52 deprives us of witnessing how he might have adapted to the sweeping changes that occurred in Japanese concert and film music in the 1960s, but as it stands Fukai is a considerably more conventional composer than Ifukube. An ...
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Japanese composer Shiro Fukai belongs to the first generation of Japanese composers to write music with Western ensembles primarily in mind. Like his near contemporary Akira Ifukube, Fukai also composed for films, perhaps most significantly Kenji Mizoguchi's The 47 Ronin. Fukai's early death at age 52 deprives us of witnessing how he might have adapted to the sweeping changes that occurred in Japanese concert and film music in the 1960s, but as it stands Fukai is a considerably more conventional composer than Ifukube. An acolyte of Meiro Sugawara, Fukai followed French models in his music very closely, not only evoking the influence of Impressionism but that of neo-Classicism as well. Naxos' Shiro Fukai: Songs of Java is an entry in its Japanese Classics series that limits itself to three large orchestral works that date from just before and during the Second World War. None of these pieces has appeared on recordings before.The Quatre mouvements parodiques dates from 1936 and purports to be a suite of...
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