WORKS FOR VIOLIN VIRTUOSO

[Machine Translation] This is the 13th album by up-and-coming violinist Shigemichi Kawabatake, who has recorded over 100,000 albums. The concept of this album is "unaccompanied (performed with only one violin). In addition to his well-known masterpieces for unaccompanied violin, Kawabata has collaborated with composer Takashi Aragaki, with whom he has been in contact since their days at Toho Gakuen about 25 years ago, and whose name became well known as a result of the "Samuragochi Incident. Immediately after the incident, Kawabatake was asked to appear at a "meeting to encourage Takashi Aragaki," and when he was asked to perform a collection of Aragaki's pieces there, Kawabatake himself highly evaluated Aragaki's talent and made a reverse offer to perform a commissioned piece for unaccompanied orchestra, which was realized. The result is a large work of approximately 27 minutes in length. Kawabatake is determined to spend the rest of his life completing this masterpiece.

過去10万枚を越える作品を持つ、気鋭のヴァイオリニスト川畠成道の13枚目のアルバム。コンセプトは"無伴奏(ヴァイオリン一本で演奏)"。今作は、聞きなじみのある名曲の無伴奏作品に加えて、同じ桐朋学園時代から約25年前より交流のある、あの「佐村河内事件」によって名前が知られることになった作曲家「新垣隆」との共同作業による作品が収められている。事件直後に、「新垣隆を励ます会」への出演依頼があり、さらにそこで新垣氏の小品集を演奏してほしいという話から、川畠自身が新垣氏の才能を高く評価し、どうせなら委嘱作品としての無伴奏作品を逆オファーして実現。約27分に及ぶ大作に仕上がっている。川畠は、この作品を生涯をかけて仕上げていく意気込みをもつほどの名曲に仕上がっている。