Rentaro Taki:
Flowers
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Ich liebe dich
Akira Nakada:
An ode to spring
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge
Franz Schubert:
Der Schmetterling
Kosaku Yamada:
Waiting in vain
The bell rings
The red dragonfly
Song of Matsushima
Yoshinao Nakada:
Little Wind
Cherryblossoms Lane
Tanki ponki
Good night
A magnificent morning
Alexander von Zemlinsky Blaues Sternlein
Gabriel Fauré:
Les Berceaux
Sadao Bekku:
Cherryblossoms Lane
Robert Franz:
Gute Nacht
Jean Sibelius:
Se’n har jag ej fragat mera
Saburo Takata:
The horsefly flies
Edvard Grieg:
Die verschwiegene Nachtigall
Shimizu Osamu:
Temple in springtime
Hugo Wolf:
Frühling übers Jahr
Francis Poulenc:
Quelle aventure
Kozaburo Hirai:
Mount Nara
Manuel de Falla:
Asturiana
Ikuma Dan:
Cicadas
Claude Debussy:
Green
Maurice Ravel:
Chanson des Cueilleuses de lentisques
Richard Strauss:
Ständchen
Gustav Mahler:
Ich atmet' einen linden Duft
Toru Takemitsu:
Small Sky
Johannes Brahms:
Da unten im Tale
Robert Schumann:
Zum Schluss
Felix Mendelssohn, Tamezo Narita:
Auf Flügeln des Gesanges/Song of the Seashore

This album combines Japanese and European art songs – two seemingly distant cultural spheres revealing often impressive affinities, whereby in the direct comparison the respective characteristic profiles of the Western and Far Eastern style traditions are certainly preserved, perhaps even more apparent. All in all, a musical round dance is created through the highs and lows of human emotions and experiences – and regardless of the permanent back and forth between East and West, an invisible bond leads us to the brilliant rising of the Far Eastern sun in the last song of “A magnificent morning” by Yoshinao Nakada. Wonderfully interpreted by Misaki Kobayashi (soprano) and Matthias Veit (piano).