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Moyura - Op. 41 - Largo

もゆらの五シ - 調

[Genre]Modern
[Composed]Yoshimatsu Takashi - Koto - 1990

Moyura - Op. 41 - Largo appears on the following albums

Album Artist

Subaru - Nanae Yoshimura plays Takashi Yoshimatsu Koto : Yoshimura Nanae
"Moyura Op. 41" is made up of five pieces (the obsolete Japanese word moyura means resonance). They represent a faint hope we have, despair from an empty dream, transparent resignation, anxiety for a far end, whose fragments touch wood and strum strings. These five scenes can be said to follow the life of a man from the cradle to the grave.

1. Largo: theme.
2. Allegro
3. Andante: intermezzo
4. Lento: adagio
5. Allegro: dance

Written from spring through fall in 1990, commissioned by Nanae Yoshimura, this work may be called a sonata-like tapestry woven between Symphony No. 2 and No. 3.