Shakuhachi with Piano in Concert

Koga Masayuki
Masayuki Koga - KGA-1012
1975

Track	Title	Kanji	Length	Artist
1	Itsuki no Komoriuta	五木の子守唄	02'42	Shakuhachi: Koga Masayuki
	Itsugi Village where this song was born is situated in the mountains far up the River Kawabegawa. It requires one and a half hours to reach there by bus from Hitoyoshi in Kumamoto Prefecture. It is said that refugees of the Heike Clan came to hide in this village after they were defeated at Danno-Ura Bay. In the poor mountain village, a baby's nurse was always ill-treated by her employer. So, she wove her sorrows in the song to sing to the world.
2	Pavane Pour une Infante Defunte	亡き王女のためのパヴァーヌ	05'52	Shakuhachi: Koga Masayuki
3	Uchiku		06'47	Shakuhachi: Koga Masayuki
	(a) Uchiku (Bamboo forest in the rain) / Yosuke Suga - 4:15 (b) Haiku / Yosuke Suga - 2:32 "Furuikeya kawazutobikomu mizunooto" by Basho. old pond a frog jumps the sound of water
4	Hietsuki Bushi	稗搗節	02'36	Shakuhachi: Koga Masayuki
	A song sung by peasant maidens to a sleeping child. They sing of their poverty and of the hopelessness of their lives.
5	Gymnopedie		04'42	Shakuhachi: Koga Masayuki
6	Gnossiennes		03'15	Shakuhachi: Koga Masayuki
7	Haru no Umi	春の海	07'50	Shakuhachi: Koga Masayuki