{"product_id":"4530835109969","title":"Ogawa Mikako - Melancholia the World of Dulcimer - Japan CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eCredits:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOgawa Mikako\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe “dalsimer,” a plucked string instrument of the zither family that spread across the Eurasian continent under various names—such as cimbalom (Hungary), yangqin (China), santur (India), and hackbrett (Germany). This album, which conveys the soft and elegant tones produced by this instrument—in which metal strings stretched across a wooden box are struck with two small mallets—is a rare and valuable recording realized by Mikako Ogawa, one of the world’s few Hackbrett specialists, with the support of renowned early music virtuosos. From Marian hymns found in *The Red Book of Montserrat*—a 14th-century manuscript compiled at a monastery near Barcelona—to dance pieces from the German Baroque era, the ancient beauty of Western music from the time before it became “classical” feels fresh and new today.\nALMRECORDS\/Kojima Recording\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALM Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53525287698721,"sku":"4530835109969","price":3080.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8482\/2076\/files\/4530835109969.jpg?v=1789730681","url":"https:\/\/cdsvinyljapan.com\/products\/4530835109969","provider":"CDs Vinyl Japan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}