℗ 2023 IBS Artist
Released | May 17, 2023 |
Duration | 50m 59s |
Record Label | IBS Classical |
Catalogue No. | IBS42023 |
Genre | Classical |
1.1
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Melodia para Estudio en si menor de Fernando Sor
Regino Sainz de la Maza; Fernando Sor; Ichiro Suzuki |
2:58 | |||
1.2
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Vals in E Major, Op.32-2
Fernando Sor; Ichiro Suzuki |
3:34 | |||
1.3
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Cancion del Emperador
Luis de Narváez; Ichiro Suzuki |
3:57 | |||
1.4
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Larghetto
Matteo Carcassi; Ichiro Suzuki |
2:34 | |||
1.5
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Dear M
Yosuke Yamashita; Miho Hazama; Ichiro Suzuki |
6:28 | |||
1.6
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The last waltz
Tōru Takemitsu; Ichiro Suzuki |
3:31 | |||
1.7
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Hamon
Hikaru Hayashi; Ichiro Suzuki |
3:35 | |||
1.8
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Mebae (A Young Sprout)
Minoru Miki; Ichiro Suzuki |
4:08 | |||
1.9
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Homenaje, Le tombeau de Claude Debussy
Manuel de Falla; Ichiro Suzuki |
3:57 | |||
Prelude in E Minor
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1.10
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Prélude No.4 in E minor
Heitor Villa-Lobos; Ichiro Suzuki |
3:43 | |||
Prelude in C Major
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1.11
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Prélude No.3 in C Major
Heitor Villa-Lobos; Ichiro Suzuki |
7:01 | |||
1.12
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Waltz of Sacura Flowers
Oxsana Herasymenko; Ichiro Suzuki |
5:33 | |||
Digital Booklet
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One of the miracles of true works of art is that they can transcend the boundaries of space and time and touch a soul born thousands of kilometres and hundreds of years after their creation. A melody from five hundred years ago, transcribed for vihuela fifty years later, brought to the guitar eighty years ago and performed by an artist born ten thousand kilometres away, generates many emotions which are difficult to explain and even less to understand. Is there really a need to understand? We will stick to Wackenroeder’s recommendation. More than two hundred years ago he used to say that you can only surrender to art and enjoy it. And this CD is one of those that has no other ambition than to make us enjoy the music, the silky beauty of the timbre of a universal instrument and the deep expressiveness of one of the most exceptional performers of recent years.
Perhaps the most exciting moment in the long career of the artistic director, founder of the Barcelona Guitar Festival, was when he received an invitation from the Royal Palace in Tokyo to give a special concert for Emperor Akihito and his family in 1996. Today, Ichiro Suzuki, born in Kobe (Japan) in 1948, wants to give us his swan song, an album to close a stage, a whole life before the six strings. He began to study the guitar at the age of six, precisely when Andrés Segovia, one of his most outstanding teachers, made the recordings to which Suzuki is now paying tribute. For several years, Ichiro Suzuki was the director of the Barcelona International Guitar Festival, a task he combined with concert tours and the recording of numerous albums in Europe and Japan. In recognition of his work, in 1989 he received a distinction from King Juan Carlos I, who awarded him the Grand Order of Isabella the Catholic.
Suzuki has performed numerous pieces which, inspired by his artistic merits, were composed especially for him by great creators of contemporary music such as Toru Takemitsu, (To the Edge of Dream for guitar and orchestra), Takekuni Hirayoshi (Requiem, for guitar and orchestra), Leo Brouwer (Retrats catalans and Beatles Story for guitar and chamber orchestra), Larry Coryell , From Broadway for guitar and string orchestra), etc..., some of which we find in this recording.
Suzuki retrieves the most representative works that have given meaning to his extensive career, offering a sonorous mosaic which begins in the Spanish renaissance and ends in the current music of his native land, with works of straightforward and emotive language, in a neo-romantic cinematographic style that only eclectic creators such as Minoru Miki, Yosuke Yamashita or Toru Takemitsu are capable of forging without falling into a peculiar simplicity.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – IBS Classical Studio Masters
Tracks 1-12 – contains material which utilizes a limited amount of the available bandwidth
Tracks 1-12 – contains material which utilizes a limited amount of the available bandwidth
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.95 -2.50 to -0.10 | -20.81 -22.65 to -19.26 | -17.84 -19.60 to -16.40 | 13 12 to 14 | |
1 | Melodia para Estudio en si menor de Fernando Sor | -2.50 | -21.26 | -18.6 | 12 |
2 | Vals in E Major, Op.32-2 | -0.61 | -20.79 | -18.2 | 14 |
3 | Cancion del Emperador | -1.66 | -22.26 | -19.6 | 14 |
4 | Larghetto | -0.97 | -19.26 | -16.4 | 12 |
5 | Dear M | -0.34 | -20.68 | -17.8 | 13 |
6 | The last waltz | -0.92 | -20.90 | -18.3 | 14 |
7 | Hamon | -0.10 | -22.65 | -18.3 | 14 |
8 | Mebae (A Young Sprout) | -2.28 | -20.11 | -17.4 | 12 |
9 | Homenaje, Le tombeau de Claude Debussy | -0.89 | -20.23 | -17.6 | 13 |
10 | Prélude No.4 in E minor | -0.10 | -20.86 | -16.8 | 12 |
11 | Prélude No.3 in C Major | -0.10 | -20.52 | -17.4 | 13 |
12 | Waltz of Sacura Flowers | -0.92 | -20.18 | -17.7 | 13 |