February 28th, 2006» Great Recordings

- 10:24 pm

Recently, I have been listening a lot to the recordings weijie ripped and burnt, i mean gotten, for me from a DVD. Those are recordings of the high school japanese band competition. I was basically drooling over the standard of the high school bands over there! They are rather technical but they are, overall, far more superior than most singaporean bands I’ve heard.

Here’s the songs that kept me occupied these days:
Dancing in the Wind -KAZE-NO-MAI-
Yosuke Fukuda -/ Yodogawa Technical High School

AIRS for Wind Orchestra
Tsutomo Tajima -/ Inagakuen Sogo High School

AFRICA - Ceremony, Song and Ritual
Robert W. Smith -/ Kashiwa High School

The Miraculous Mandarin
Bela Bartok / Mamoru Nakata -/ Yumoto High School

Feste Romane - I. Circenses, IV. La Befana
Ottorino Respighi / Mamoru Nakata -/ Komazawa University High School

La Mer - III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer
Claude Debussy / Yoshikazu Hatta -/ Yono High School

Trois Mouvements Symphoniques-III
Akira Miyoshii / Tomoo Motozu -/ Joso Gakuin High School

Turandot
Giacomo Puccini / Harunori Ishizuya -/ Narashino High School

Concerto for Orchestra
Bela Bartok / Kazuhiro Morita -/ Inagakuen Sogo High School

Rapsodie Espagnole - IV. Feria
Maurice Ravel / Kousuke Tatsuta -/ Yodogawa Technical High School

I was also told the bands were even more impressive visually. How I wish I was there to watch the DVD myself!

By the way, HSCB will be playing “AIRS for wind orchestra” for the coming NBC. It’s a fantastic sounding piece.

I do hope they will play well this time!

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