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Akio Yashiro - Piano Concerto

Akio Yashiro (1929 - 1976) - Piano Concerto (1964 - 1967) I. Allegro animato [0:00] II. Adagio misterioso [12:21] III. Allegro - Andante - Vivace molto capriccioso [19:50] Hiromi Okada, piano Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa (2001) Akio Yashiro's Piano Concerto is a work in three movements typically lasting around 25 minutes. "Yashiro’s Piano Concerto was commissioned by NHK, Nippon Hoso Kyokai, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, and was composed between 1964 and 1967. It was first heard in a broadcast performance on 5th November, 1967, with Hiroko Nakamura as the soloist and the NHK Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Hiroshi Wakasugi, and was awarded the Otaka Award of the Year. Instituted in commemoration of the composer Hisatada Otaka, the award is the most important prize in Japan given to orchestral works. This work has ever since enjoyed particular favour in Japan among works written by Japanese composers, and has been played several times in the West. Among those who have conducted the concerto are Jean Martinon, Jean Fournet, and Michael Gielen. The Piano Concerto consists of three movements, and there one can recognize the influence of Bartók, Prokofiev, Jolivet and others, as well as that of a Japanese composer who also studied in France and whom Yashiro regarded as his rival, Akira Miyoshi, notably his Piano Concerto of 1962 and Concerto for Orchestra written two years later. The first movement is marked Allegro animato and is in free sonata form. The piano abruptly starts playing the first theme like an incantation in irregular time, supported by the vibraphone and the strings, with characteristic interjections of two chromatically descending notes on the brass repeatedly thrown in. This is followed by a vigorous quasi-cadenza passage for the piano. Then the flute takes up the meditative first part of the second theme, which is followed by the piano playing the lament-like second part, in cadenza style. The development mainly takes up the first theme but only briefly as if it merely serves as an introduction to the recapitulation. The first half of the recapitulation, taking over from the development, treats the first theme, but with an increasing intensity, until it reaches the climax, which is highly reminiscent of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The second part of the recapitulation recalls the vigorous quasi-cadenza passage and the second subject group. The second movement is marked Adagio misterioso. The rhythmic pattern of seven notes in three bars in C only is repeated 43 times with a persistence that would overshadow Ifukube and Ravel’s Boléro. The motif of the second part of the secondary theme of the first movement joins in and the movement is brought to a climax, after which the music gradually fades away and is brought to an end. The composer describes his rhythmic pattern as a reproduction of the sound he continuously heard in a childhood nightmare while he lay in bed with a fever. The third movement, Allegro - Andante - Vivace molto capriccioso, is in free rondo form. An eloquent motif characterized by very vigorous ascending motion and a humorous motif played on the muted brass are first presented, but the main character of this movement is the vigorous cadenza-style passage for the piano which follows these motifs. The concerto is brought to a brilliant end, with these motifs, together with reminiscences of the motivic material of the preceding movements." (source: Naxos) Original audio:    • Akio Yashiro [矢代 秋雄]: Piano Concerto (Hiro...   Thanks to Pranav Sivakumar for this score!