| Naxos | Hiroshi Ohguri was one of the leading composers in Osaka, the central city of the western part of Japan. Not only was he born and brought up there, but he also embodied its culture and traditions in his music. Osaka is some four hundred kilometres to the west of Tokyo. The city is 2.5 hours away from Tokyo by express railway and one hour away by air. Its eastern side is adjacent to Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, where Emperors resided for some eleven hundred years from the eighth century, and its western side is adjacent to the harbour city Kobe. Osaka, which, like Kobe, is on the coast, grew as an important centre, and served practically as the capital when Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the most powerful samurai of the day, built a large castle there in the second half of the sixteenth century. After Hideyoshi’s death, his son Hideyori was defeated by Ieyasu Tokugawa and the centre of politics shifted to Edo, today’s Tokyo, where the Tokugawas were based. Since then, Osaka has developed mainly as the centre of commerce, in competition with the capital Tokyo, where the Imperial family moved in the late nineteenth century. |
| Disc No: 8.555321 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: Ohguri - Violin Concerto | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Ohguri, Hiroshi | Fantasy on Osaka Folk Tunes | Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra - Tatsuya Shimono | ||
| Ohguri, Hiroshi | Legend for Orchestra - after the Tale of Ama-no-Iwayado | |||
| Ohguri, Hiroshi | Rhapsody on Osaka Nursery Rhymes | |||
| Ohguri, Hiroshi | Violin Concerto | Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra - Tatsuya Shimono Kazuhiro Takagi, violin |