The International Shakuhachi Society
- Recording: Shakuhachi with Piano in Concert -
Shakuhachi with Piano in Concert
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Koga Masayuki
Masayuki Koga - KGA-1012
1975
| Track | Title | Kanji | Length | Shakuhachi | Shamisen | Koto |
| 1 (Listen) | Itsuki no Komoriuta | 五木の子守唄 | 02'42 | Koga Masayuki | ||
| Itsugi Village where this song was born is situated in the mountains far up the River Kawabegawa. It requires one and a half hours to reach there by bus from Hitoyoshi in Kumamoto Prefecture. It is said that refugees of the Heike Clan came to hide in this village after they were defeated at Danno-Ura Bay. In the poor mountain village, a baby's nurse was always ill-treated by her employer. So, she wove her sorrows in the song to sing to the world. | ||||||
| 2 (Listen) | Pavane Pour une Infante Defunte | 05'52 | Koga Masayuki | |||
| 3 (Listen) | Uchiku | 06'47 | Koga Masayuki | |||
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(a) Uchiku (Bamboo forest in the rain) / Yosuke Suga - 4:15 (b) Haiku / Yosuke Suga - 2:32 "Furuikeya kawazutobikomu mizunooto" by Basho. old pond a frog jumps the sound of water | ||||||
| 4 (Listen) | Hietsuki Bushi | 稗つき節 | 02'36 | Koga Masayuki | ||
| A song sung by peasant maidens to a sleeping child. They sing of their poverty and of the hopelessness of their lives. | ||||||
| 5 (Listen) | Gymnopedie | 04'42 | Koga Masayuki | |||
| 6 (Listen) | Gnossiennes | 03'15 | Koga Masayuki | |||
| 7 (Listen) | Haru no Umi | 春の海 | 07'50 | Koga Masayuki | ||