Ginei Meiryu Meien Shusei

[Machine Translation] Last year marked the 57th anniversary of the founding of the Nippon Columbia Ginyu Ongaku Kai. In its 57 years of history, it has produced and nurtured many famous minpo-writers from all over Japan. This 2-CD set, "Gin-ei Meika Meien Shusei" (Collection of Master Performances of Gin-ei by Famous Poets), contains some of Columbia's treasured Gin-ei recordings from its 110 years of existence. The tracks include "Zeku" and "Ritsu-shi" from Chinese and Japanese poetry, "Koutai-shi", "Jiyu-shi", "The Tale of the Heike", "Koutai-shi", "Jiyu-shi", "Heike Monogatari", "Koutai-shi", "Shintai-shi" by Kitahara Hakushu, and "Waka" by Ishikawa Takuboku, which transcend time and are widely known as "gin-ei".

"日本コロムビア吟詠音楽会"は、昨年創立57周年を迎えた。この57年の歴史の中から全国の多くの名吟詠家を生み育ててきた。創立110年を刻んで来たコロムビアに秘蔵の名吟といわれる吟詠音源を蔵出したのがこの2枚組CD「吟詠名家名演集成」。曲目は、中国漢詩、日本漢詩の「絶句」、「律詩」をはじめとし、「古体詩」、「自由詩」「平家物語」から、名将武勇詩、和漢名詩、幕末維新詩、北原白秋の「新体詩」、石川啄木の「和歌」などが時代を乗り超え幅広く名実ともなる「吟詠」が収録されている。