Jeroen Van Veen - Sakamoto: For Mr Lawrence Piano Music (2019) [Hi-Res]
Artist: Jeroen Van Veen
Title: Sakamoto: For Mr Lawrence Piano Music
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Brilliant Classics
Genre: Classical Piano
Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +Booklet
Total Time: 05:43:54
Total Size: 1013 / 2833
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TracklistTitle: Sakamoto: For Mr Lawrence Piano Music
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Brilliant Classics
Genre: Classical Piano
Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +Booklet
Total Time: 05:43:54
Total Size: 1013 / 2833
WebSite: Album Preview
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01. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
02. Fountain
03. Solitude Theme
04. Dancing in the Sky
05. Asience-fast Piano
06. The Sheltering Sky Theme
07. Solari
08. Gohatto
09. Yamazaki 2002
10. Ubi
11. Andata
12. Aubade
13. Silk Endroll
14. Koko
15. Mizu no naka no bagatelle
16. Reversing
17. Stepfather
18. Shining Boy & Little Randy
19. Litany
20. The Last Emperor, Version 1
21. The Last Emperor, Version 2
22. Seven Samurai-Ending Theme
23. High Heels Main Theme
24. M.A.Y. In the Backyard
25. Zero Landmine
26. The Revenant- Main Theme
27. Tibetan Dance
28. Behind the Mask
29. Blu
30. Rain
31. The Land Song-Music for Artelligent City
32. Dear Liz
33. Thousand Knives
34. 1919
1919.
35. Batavia
36. Germination
37. A Hearty Breakfast
38. Before the War
39. The Seed and The Sower
40. A Brief Encounter
41. Ride Ride Ride
42. The Fight
43. Dismissed, Assembly
44. Beyond Reason
45. Sowing the Seed
46. Last Regrets
47. The Seed
48. Tong Poo
49. Happy End
50. Kai Koh
51. Gohatto (2)
52. Dear Liz (2)
53. Castalia
54. Amore
55. Lost Child
56. Opus
57. Sonatine
58. Intermezzo
59. Lorentz and Watson
60. Choral No. 1
61. Choral No. 2
62. Bachata
63. Chanson
64. Distant Echo
65. Aqua
66. Energy Flow
67. Put Your Hands Up
68. Railroad Man
69. Eight Themes of Eight
70. I have to Buy a New Pair of Shoes
71. On the Boat
72. Tamago 2004
73. Before Long
74. Loneliness
75. Perspective
76. Ex Jazz
77. Parolibre
78. Sweet Revenge
79. Tatorso
80. Tango
81. Bibo no Aozora
82. Floating Along
83. A Flower is not a Flower
84. Sayonara
85. High Tide
A comprehensive collection of Sakamoto’s instrumental songs and film music from a master of Minimalist piano. Famed worldwide as a film composer, Ryiuchi Sakamoto began his career as a pianist, creating patterns, phrases and innovative arrangements before joining his first commercial electronic pop band in 1978, the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Around the same time, he worked on his first solo album, the Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto (1978), which blends up-to-date electronic techniques with an old-fashioned gift for good tunes. Riot in Lagos brought him fame beyond Japan, and he went on to work with many top producers of pop, dance and electro.
In 1983, Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence launched Sakamoto’s career as a film composer, which has gone from strength to strength with scores for The Last Emperor (1987) and The Revenant (2015). All these pieces feature in Jeroen van Veen’s survey, which is based on the best modern edition of these scores and often differs from Sakamoto’s own, partly improvised recordings.
Classical listeners will appreciate Sakamoto’s breadth of reference: to Chopin (Ubi), Bach (Andata, Solari), Glass (Bibo no Aozora), Satie (Opus), Brahms (Intermezzo) and Ravel (Bachata), for example. But his language of minimalist jazz is one enjoyed around the world as music that gives listeners the space to think and work and create for themselves.
‘Van Veen has a lovely, rounded, ringing, almost bell-like sound (highly appropriate for Pärt’s tintinnabuliations) and a wonderful sense of ebb and flow. Never does the music sound rushed in his hands, and more importantly never does it meander and lose its way... This may be the finest collection of his complete piano works available.’ (Fanfare, March/April 2015 on the complete piano music of Arvo Pärt, BC95053)