Just for Me: Noriko Ogawa plays Japanese Piano Music

Kunihiko Hashimoto (Composer), Fumio Hayasaka (Composer), Kikuko Kanai (Composer), Yasuji Kiyose (Composer), Kiyoshige Koyama (Composer), Shukichi Mitsukuri (Composer), Yoshinao Nakata (Composer), Ryuichi Sakamoto (Composer), Meiro Sugawara (Composer), Rentaro Taki (Composer), Akio Yashiro (Composer), Noriko Ogawa (Performer)

Product Details

• Performer: Noriko Ogawa
• Composer: Kunihiko Hashimoto, Fumio Hayasaka, Kikuko Kanai, Yasuji Kiyose, Kiyoshige Koyama, et al.
• Audio CD (August 5, 2000)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bis
• ASIN: B0000016PE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #879,039 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Menuetto for piano in B minor

2. Grudge, for piano

3. Three Piano Pieces after the Flower, for piano: Night Rhapsody

4. Three Piano Pieces after the Flower, for piano: Sakura

5. Three Piano Pieces after the Flower, for piano: Es ist März, der Frühling

6. Trois Poèmes au Hakouho, for piano: Souién (Steam)

7. Three Piano Pieces: Pluie dans la rue

8. Three Piano Pieces: Sortie de leçon de la petite danseuse

9. Three Piano Pieces: Nocturne

10. Ryukyu Dances, for piano: Andante

11. Ryukyu Dances, for piano: Lento

12. Ryukyu Dances, for piano: Andante

13. Ryukyu Dances, for piano: Maidens Under the Moon

14. Autumn, for piano

15. Kagome-Variation, for piano

16. Nocturne for piano

17. Variational Étude for piano

18. Piano Suite: Vivace scherzando

19. Piano Suite: Lento

20. Piano Suite: Risoluto

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasurable pianism, November 25, 2000

By	tertius3 (MI United States) - See all my reviews

The risk-taking young Noriko Ogawa is a golden pianist. She records whole movements in single takes, and is best known for her Rachmaninov. Her rich tone, superb control, and stylistic sensitivity is fully captured on this BIS disk.

Despite the title this is a "classical" sampler rather than pop music. Most of the 11 Japanese composers featured here worked with European forms or styles--between 1900 and 1981, in a huge gamut of styles ranging from Chopinesque to modern dissonant--but there is a notable tendency to incorporate lovely native pentatonal scales, especially in music from the nationalistic 1930s. The overall feeling is mostly calming and nocturnal, rather like Carol Rosenberger's selection of impressionist "Night Moods" on Delos 3030. Informative notes to composers mostly unknown here are included.