¡Four Elements Vol.2: Fire
¡Yu Kosuge (piano)
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[Machine Translation] Pianist Masaru Kosuge has been working on a concert series ("Four Elements": Water, Fire, Wind, and Earth) since 2007. In her first CD, "Water," which has already been released to great acclaim, she depicted the various forms of "water," which transforms freely and penetrates into people's emotions, and in her second CD, she has again breathed life into a variety of works on the theme of "fire. Fire is first associated with the mythological Prometheus, who, without regard to the gods, stole fire and shared it with mankind. Kosuge takes up Liszt's symphonic poem "Prometheus" (piano arrangement by L. Starck) and fully expresses the wrath of God against Prometheus. Another highlight of this album is that it mainly contains music written during World War I. The album is based on the anxieties and feelings of the people of that time period, and depicts "fire (warfare)" with bold emotional expression, distinguishing between the divine and demonic nature of fire. In the excerpt from Stravinsky's "The Firebird" at the end, you will feel a huge flame of sound that seems to lick all the earth and the sky.
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