Credits:

Keitaro Harada (conductor)

Description:

Composer Takashi Yoshimatsu will reach his 70th birthday in 2023. An indispensable figure in today's Japanese classical music scene, he continues to fascinate a wide range of audiences with his unique world view, including numerous masterpieces such as symphonies, piano pieces, and concertos, as well as fusions of progressive and classical music such as "Tarkas" and "Atom Hearts Club Suite", and the NHK historical drama "Taira no Kiyomori". This album includes Symphony No. 1 and Chicap from the all-Yoshimatsu program performance by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Keitaro Harada in September 2022. In March 2023, the same duo will again perform Yoshimatsu's royal program at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, including Symphony No. 3 and Talcas. (C)RS