Matinee no Owari ni And More

[Machine Translation] The author Keiichiro Hirano's "At the End of the Matinee" serialized in the Mainichi Newspaper's morning edition was published in book form by Mainichi Newspaper in April 2016, and in paperback by Bunshun Bunko in June 2019. A romantic novel centered on Satoshi Makino, a guitar prodigy, and Yoko Komine, a reporter for a news agency, the novel captivates readers with its complex intertwining of various themes, including the anguish of being in one's forties, slump, PTSD, war, life and death, father and son, teacher and student, and jealousy. The main character is a classical guitarist, and world-renowned guitarist Shinichi Fukuda advised Hirano from the conception stage. The first CD features an original piece of music from the fictional film "The Coin of Happiness," which is the key to the story, faithfully following Hirano's image of the song. In the second volume, you can listen to guitar pieces by artists other than Makino that appear in the story, starting with "Brahms: Interlude," the piece that triggers the encounter between the main characters Makino and Yoko, and the story that begins with it. The songs were again selected under the supervision of Keiichiro Hirano, and the guitar performance by Shinichi Fukuda and Masako Hayashi, one of Japan's leading opera singers, will further enhance the three-dimensional enjoyment of the story of the original work.

作家・平野啓一郎が毎日新聞朝刊で連載した『マチネの終わりに』が、2016年4月に毎日新聞社より単行本が発行。2019年6月に文春文庫より文庫本が発行。天才ギタリストの蒔野聡史と通信社記者の小峰洋子の二人を軸にした恋愛小説。40代の苦悩、スランプ、PTSD、戦争、生と死、父と子、師弟、嫉妬等、様々なテーマが複雑に絡み合い、読者を魅了した。クラシックギタリストが主人公であり、世界的ギタリストの福田進一が構想の段階から平野に助言し、小説全編にわたって登場するギター曲を、福田の演奏で収録したタイアップCD「マチネの終わりに」の第2弾。第1弾では物語のカギとなる架空の映画音楽「幸福の硬貨」を平野のイメージに忠実に従い、オリジナル曲を収録。第2弾では、主人公の蒔野と洋子が出会うきっかけとなり、その曲をきっかけに物語が始まる「ブラームス: 間奏曲」を筆頭に、物語に登場する蒔野以外のアーティストのギター曲も聴くことができる。今回も平野啓一郎監修のもと選曲し、福田進一のギターと日本を代表するオペラ歌手林正子の共演で、さらに原作の物語を立体的に楽しめる。