Tadao Sawai - Iris Of Time / Virtuoso Koto flac album

Koto – Hikaru Sawai (tracks: 3), Kazue Sawai (tracks: 1-3,5-9). Producer – Hiroshi Isaka. Iris of Time' (1987) is subtitled 'Heterophony for Seven Kotos and Three Jyushichigen-Kotos. Composition dates are not indicated for the remaining pieces, and there are no English translations provided for the five movements of Yuasa's piece. All pieces recorded July 7-8, 1988, at Iruma CIty Auditorium, Tokyo. Includes 10-page booklet with liner notes mostly in Japanese.

Other albums by Tadao Sawai. Koto Music: Tadao Sawai Plays Michio Miyagi. The koto performer, composer, and educator Michio Miyagi (1894-1956) is considered the father of modern koto. He was named the Mozart of koto because of his amazing skill and the Japanese Schubert for his lyrical melodies. He modernized the playing of the koto, developing new playing and composition techniques and inventing new instruments, among which the best-known is the jushichigen, the 17-stringed bass koto. Miyagi did only few recordings at the beginning of the 1950s

Watching Sawai himself perform the koto was an unforgettable experience; here was all the beauty and control of an instrument brought alive by hands which seemed to pull the music out of the air. Sawai makes playing koto seem effortless. I remember once, when I was lucky enough to be a member of his koto ensemble for his solo concerto in Osaka, some Americans came up afterwards and asked me about the instrument. For the koto world, struggling to find a meaningful niche in postwar Japan, this has been more than a blessing. It has helped to keep koto alive. Sawai writes for beginners as well as advanced performers: I remember learning Sawai pieces when I was a beginner studying in another koto school back in 1979, and how taken I was with the lively rhythmical elements of his music. It was one of the things that "hooked" me - and I am sure many other struggling beginners - on koto.

Singer: Tadao Sawai Album's name: Iris Of Time, Virtuoso Koto Label: Camerata ‎– 32CM-92 Type: CD, Album Country: Japan Date of released: 1989 Category: Classical, Folk, World, & Country Style: Modern. Tadao Sawai - Iris Of Time, Virtuoso Koto MP3 version. 1679 downloads at 15 mb/s. Tadao Sawai - Iris Of Time, Virtuoso Koto FLAC version. 1915 downloads at 11 mb/s. Composed By – Akira Nishimura. 1. Stratums Of Times.

Kazue Sawai wrote about this piece: Quote. The following note was written by Tadao Sawai 3 months before he passed away. I can not stop thinking that the nuance of this piece carries the meaning of "reincarnation" as life goes round in circle: {I have always been happy, but I have to say goodbye. I wish I could spend more time with everyone but it can't be helped Good bye it has really been a wonderful life If there was such thing as "reincarnation" I would repeat this life all over again.

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Tadao Sawai (1937–1997), the son of a shakuhachi (vertical bamboo flute) player, followed the 350-year koto tradition of being both a composer and performer. He began his study of the koto at age ten and performed on national radio the following year. He also began composing in his youth and graduated from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts in 1959. That same year, Japan's national broadcasting system named Sawai the "Annual Best Hope for the Future of Contemporary Music.