Akira Ifukube - The Artistry of Akira Ifukube, Vol. 8 (Tetsuji Honna)

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Composer: Akira Ifukube

CD1:

• Overture to the Nation of Philippines
• Japanese Rhapsody
• Symphonic Fantasia No. 1

CD2:

• Symphonic Ode 'Gotama the Buddha'
• Sinfonia Tapkaara: III. Vivace

Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra

Tetsuji Honna, conductor

Date: 2004

Label: King Record

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Akira Ifukube (31 May 1914 – 8 February 2006) was a Japanese composer. He studied forestry at Hokkaido University and is a self-taught composer. In 1936 Ifukube's first orchestral work, Japanese Rhapsody (1935), won the Tcherepnin Prize in Paris. After this international success he went on to write several more orchestral and chamber works, and gained a teaching position at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s Ifukube was active as a composer of film and concert music, writing scores for some 300 films. From 1976 to 1987, he was president of the Tokyo College of Music.

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Tetsuji Honna (born 19 January 1957 in Kōriyama, Fukushima) is a Japanese conductor. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. In Japan, he had served as principal conductor of the Osaka Symphony Orchestra (1995-2001) and the Japan Chamber Orchestra (1993-97). Honna has been Music Advisor and Conductor (2001-09), and then Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Vietnam Symphony Orchestra since 2009. He has been awarded many prizes and medals for his contributions to Vietnamese music and the development of Vietnam-Japan relationship.

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