Fumio Hayasaka - The Seven Samurai. The Artistry of Fumio Hayasaka (Tetsuji Honna)

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Composer: Fumio Hayasaka

1. The Seven Samurai: The theme of the Samurais
2. The Seven Samurai: Intermezzo
3. Rashomon: Title
4. Rashomon: Kikori
5. Rashomon: Tajyoumaru
6. Rashomon: Last scene
7. Rashomon: Masago
8. Dance antique
9. Overture in D
10. Movement in Metamorphosis for Orchestra

Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Tetsuji Honna, conductor

Date: 1999

Label: King Records

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Fumio Hayasaka (August 19, 1914 – October 15, 1955) was a Japanese composer of classical music and film scores. Born in Sendai and grew up in Sapporo, he won a number of prizes for his early concert before moving to Tokyo in 1939 to begin a career as film composer. Hayasaka had a celebrated association with the pre-eminent Japanese director Akira Kurosawa which was short-lived due to Hayasaka's early death. Among the films Hayasaka scored for Kurosawa are Stray Dog (1949), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954). He was musical mentor to both Masaru Satō and Tōru Takemitsu.

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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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