A talented student of Keiko Abe and an acclaimed soloist with the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble, Mika Takehara makes an impressive debut on BIS with this 2004 recital of six virtuosic works for solo marimba and other percussion. The four marimba offerings -- Yasuo Sueyoshi's wildly gestural Mirage, Akira Miyoshi's effusive Ripple, Toshi Ichiyanagi's moody Portrait of Forest, and Minoru Miki's discursive Time -- are unlikely to impress in terms of their musical content, but they are challenging enough to show Takehara's ...
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A talented student of Keiko Abe and an acclaimed soloist with the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble, Mika Takehara makes an impressive debut on BIS with this 2004 recital of six virtuosic works for solo marimba and other percussion. The four marimba offerings -- Yasuo Sueyoshi's wildly gestural Mirage, Akira Miyoshi's effusive Ripple, Toshi Ichiyanagi's moody Portrait of Forest, and Minoru Miki's discursive Time -- are unlikely to impress in terms of their musical content, but they are challenging enough to show Takehara's skills to best advantage, and allow her to display her full range of techniques and expressions on the instrument. The two works for various unpitched percussion -- Maki Ishii's obsessively driven Thirteen Drums, and Hideki Kozakura's poetically atmospheric Johali -- offer music of greater excitement, more varied textures and more exotic colors, and may serve as aural respites if the marimba's limited timbres induce ear fatigue. Yet even if there are no masterpieces on this disc, Takehara...
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Akira Miyoshi; Hideki Kozakura; Maki Ishii; Minoru Miki; Toshi Ichiyanagi; Yasuo Sueyoshi. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.