{"product_id":"4589538756161","title":"Ekaterina Saranceva - Ohzawa: Piano Concerto No. 3 . Symphony No. 3 - Import CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eCredits:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEkaterina Saranceva\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHitoshi Osawa was a composer who, despite demonstrating outstanding talent as a Japanese composer during the pre-war and mid-war periods, failed to gain recognition from his contemporaries in the Japanese music world; following his untimely death, his very existence was all but forgotten. Born to an engineer father and a Christian mother, Osawa became familiar with the organ and choral music during his boyhood and learned piano from foreigners who attended his church. Immediately after graduating from the Faculty of Commerce at Kwansei Gakuin University, he went to study in the United States. He enrolled at Boston University and the New England Conservatory of Music to further his studies. In 1934, he traveled to France and enrolled at the École Normale de Musique, where he studied under Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger; he returned to Japan in 1936 and began his career as a composer.\nHis Symphony No. 3, composed in 1937, was a work conceived with the “2,600th Year of the Imperial Era” in 1940 in mind; at its premiere, it was subtitled “Symphony of the Founding of the Nation.” The avant-garde edge of his previous work, Symphony No. 2, had softened somewhat, resulting in music with a late-Romantic atmosphere. Additionally, the “Kamikaze Concerto,” a piano concerto named after the Asahi Shimbun’s aircraft “Kamikaze,” which successfully completed a record-breaking flight from Tokyo to London in under 100 hours, was composed and premiered in 1938. However, its overly modern style failed to fully resonate with audiences, and the work was largely forgotten after its premiere. Released half a century after the composer’s death, this recording won the Excellence Award in the Record Category at the Heisei 16 Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival. The original liner notes by Morihide Katayama are also well worth reading.\n\n*The liner notes and performer profiles are reprinted from the booklet of the previously released product [8.557416J].\nNaxos Japan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naxos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53374660215073,"sku":"4589538756161","price":1980.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8482\/2076\/files\/4589538756161.jpg?v=1787632239","url":"https:\/\/cdsvinyljapan.com\/products\/4589538756161","provider":"CDs Vinyl Japan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}