Voice from Golden Hearts Publications

I will be introducing some Golden Hearts Publications piece per week.Please give me a few moments of your time!Here's today's piece.Fantasia, on Folk Songs of Fukuoka / Ken'ichi Masakado [Horn Quartet]Printed versionhttps://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghmb-05Program notes :I compose this in February 2010 in response to a request to “use a folk song transmitted to Fukuoka Prefecture, with a range that even beginners can play well”.The folk songs used here are three songs: “Kuroda-bushi” (C to E), “Tanko-bushi” (G to H), and “Hakata Iwai-uta” (L to N). In addition, a rhythm that imitates "Hakata teippon" is incorporated in some places.(Ken'ichi Masakado)I look forward to...

I will be introducing some Golden Hearts Publications piece per week.Please give me a few moments of your time!Here's today's piece.Trio Concertante / Ippolito Parrinello [2 wind instruments and Piano]Printed versionhttps://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghpb-02PDF versionhttps://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghpb-02-pdfProgram notes :This piece was composed for my formation Saxoforte Dynamic Trio (Tommaso Miranda, Giorgia Grutta) in 2018. We had just received an invitation to perform together and we soon realized that the repertoire for Soprano, Baritone sax and piano is very limited, so I tried to make something new suited to our style.With this trio I wanted to evoke the form and the style of the baroque “Vivaldian”...

I will be introducing some Golden Hearts Publications piece per week.Please give me a few moments of your time!Here's today's piece.UNE LARME / Modest Mussorgsky (arr. Kouichirou Oguni) [Saxophone Duo]Printed versionhttps://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghoa-30PDF versionhttps://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghoa-30-pdfProgram notes :“Pictures at an Exhibition” is well known as one of Piano works by Modest Mussorgsky (1839~1881). However, his other works for Piano are seldom heard. This work, “UNE LARME” is not heard, so often.I presume that it’ll be worth thinking that thanks to those forgotten works and forgotten composers, we can enjoy the present music.Bb S.Sax and Bb T.Sax can be played by Bb Clarinet and Bass...

I will be introducing some Golden Hearts Publications piece per week.Please give me a few moments of your time!Here's today's piece.Kam-pai Divertimento for Koto and Vibraphone / Mizuki AitaPrinted versionhttps://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghaa-08PDF versionhttps://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghaa-08-pdfProgram notes :At the recommendation of composer Makoto Nomura, I was asked to participate in a project called "NOTES" organized by the Japan Foundation Asia Center.What was decided at that point was to plan to invite Indonesian musicians to Japan for two weeks in January 2018 to do "something". And in July, we would also go to Indonesia. That was it. And we were to come up with that "something"...

I will be introducing some Golden Hearts Publications piece per week.Please give me a few moments of your time!Here's today's piece.Departure / Ryoko Oyama [Trumpet Quintet]Printed versionhttps://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghoc-02PDF versionhttps://global.goldenheartspublications.com/products/ghoc-02-pdfProgram notes :This piece is a revised version of a piece I composed in 2010 to perform with my friends in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Band.At the time, they were in the middle of their training for promotion, and I composed this piece with the image of the scene of them saluting and seeing each other off, the word "Departure" at the airport boarding gate, and the blue sky on their way...