ABOUT
Toshiro Mayuzumi’s “Pieces For Prepared Piano And Strings”1 was recorded by the Louisville Orchestra, as part of their First Edition Records (LOU-636) label, in 1963.
“Pieces For Prepared Piano And Strings” was recorded in April2 of 1963 and released in the same year. Robert Whitney conducts the Louisville orchestra on the recording and the piano soloist is Benjamin Owen. The LP also includes Frank Martin’s “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra” with soloist Paul Kling, and Ernest Bloch’s “Proclamation” for trumpet and orchestra with soloist Leon Rapier. “Pieces For Prepared Piano And Strings” is the last piece on the B-side of the LP and is the first work of three by Toshiro Mayuzumi recorded for the Louisville Orchestra’s First Edition Records. His orchestral poem “Samsara” (LOU-666) in was recorded in May 1966 and released that year3; and his 1963 “Essay for String Orchestra” (LOU-777) was recorded 4 November 1980 and released in 19834.
The recording, in addition to Samsara and the Essay, were re-issued on First Edition FECD-00305 in January of 2004.
LISTEN
Score & Parts: https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/72550/Pieces-for-Prepared-Piano–Strings–Toshiro-Mayuzumi/
NOTES
- It’s unclear if this is just an adaptation of Mayuzumi’s 1957 “Pieces for Prepared Piano and String Quartet,” but Fralen (2000b: 71) explicitly states the one for strings is “Copyright 1958.” ↩︎
- Iowa Libraries InfoHawk+ (n.d.) lists the month but no day date. Presumably this info is contained in the CD reissue of Mayuzumi’s works from 2004, though Fralen (2000b: 71) does not list a month or day date. WorldCat (n.d.) gives a different year, 1964, as the recording date, but is likely a typo as it lists the release date as 1963. ↩︎
- Fralen (2000b: 71). ↩︎
- Fralen (2000b: 71). ↩︎
- See Barnett (2005). ↩︎
REFERENCES
Barnett, Rob. (2005, February 5). MAYUZUMI Pieces for prepared piano and strings FIRST EDITION FECD-0030: Classical CD Reviews [Online]. MusicWeb International. https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2005/feb05/Mayazumi.htm
Fralin, Sandra Lee. (2000a). The Role of the Louisville Orchestra in the Fostering of New Music, 1947–1997: Volume I [Dissertation: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]. https://www.proquest.com/docview/304619001/4F1BBC6CFB8846B9PQ/6.
Fralin, Sandra Lee. (2000b). The Role of the Louisville Orchestra in the Fostering of New Music, 1947–1997: Volume II [Dissertation: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]. https://www.proquest.com/docview/304619001/4F1BBC6CFB8846B9PQ/6.
Iowa Libraries InfoHawk+. (n.d.). Toshiro Mayuzumi. – 01IOWA [Online]. https://search.lib.uiowa.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay/01IOWA_ALMA21427788030002771/01IOWA.
WorldCat. (n.d.). Toshiro Mayuzumi [Online]. https://search.worldcat.org/title/57135862?oclcNum=57135862
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