Yuji Takahashi
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Live recording from the “Yuji Takahashi Piano Recital: Bach and Cage” held at Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall on 30 May 1974. Originally released on LP in 1977, this work is now reissued on CD and for download. The Cage works include: Cheap Imitation, employing chance operations; Metamorphoses, an early work utilising serial manipulation; and The Seasons, ballet music choreographed by Merce Cunningham expressing India's traditional seasonal perspective. In Bach's Toccata No. 2 in C minor, two distinct tempos create a striking contrast in musical expression. Takahashi Yuji was 35 at the time of recording. This is an album where one is utterly captivated by his uniquely incisive and unparalleled performance.
Release notes
Recorded live from the concert "Yuji Takahashi plays J.S. Bach & J. Cage", May 30. 1974 at Kanagawakenritsu-Ongakudo. DXD Digital Remastered from the first edition (LP).
| 1 | Cheap Imitation [1969] (Excerpts) | 6:48 | |
| 2 | Metamorphosis [1938] | 16:47 | |
| 3 | The Seasons, Ballet In One Act [1947] | 14:50 | |
| 4 | Toccata No. 2 In C-Minor BWV911 | 11:36 |
- Nobukage Torii
- Art Direction
- Youichi Yamabe
- Artwork [Cover Art]
- Kensuke Fujii
- Booklet Editor
- J.S. Bach
- Composed By (4)
- John Cage
- Composed By (1 to 3)
- Kousaku Urano
- Engineer
- Tost
- Other [Concert Planner, Promoter]
- Tatsuya Yamaguchi
- Photography By
- Yuji Takahashi
- Piano
- Yukio Kojima
- Producer, Remastered By
