Mother's Songs - Japanese Popular Songs / Mera, Uchiyama

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Album Summary

Performers

• Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano)
• Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)

Composers

• Tadasuke Ono
• Ikuma Dan (1924 - )
• Haseo Sugiyama (1889 - 1952)
• Fumihiko Fukui
• Megumi Onaka
• Yoshinao Nakada (died 1923)
• Kosaku Yamada (1886 - 1965)
• Kunihiko Hashimoto
• Kozaburo Hirai (1910 - )
• Rentauro Taki (1879 - 1903)
• Ryutaro Hirota (1892 - 1952)
• Minoru Kainuma
• Sada Yanada
• Ryoichi Hattori

Notes & Reviews:

To hear of a Japanese counter-tenor may come as quite a surprise, but Yoshikazu Mera proves that he is an accomplished and extremely talented artist with a quality of voice that rivals the other Western counter-tenors such as Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley and Daniel Taylor, among others. He offers us 21 Japanese folk and pop songs accompanied on the piano on Mother's Songs, all accompaniments being as simple as they can be. Yet, the quality of his voice, his singing, and his musicality are the most enchanting, delicate, and some might even say the most entrancing. What strikes with Mera is that at first his voice sounds more like a woman or a boy's voice rather than a counter-tenor, as is the case with Kagan-Paley or Taylor. The title of the CD is in fact the most suggestive -- Mother's Songs -- getting the feeling across of young boy singing for his mother. Yoshikazu Mera is much more than a boy with a nice voice, he has a remarkable mastery of his counter-tenor voice. A name to remember! ~ Bruno Deschênes

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Works Details

Ono, Tadasuke : Evening Primrose

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Nakata, Yoshinao : I Found a Small Autumn

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1955
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Hirota, Ryutaro : Being Scolded

• Performers: Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor); Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Dan, Ikuma : Autumn Field

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: by 1929
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Yamada, Kosaku : Red Dragonfly

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1927
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Kainuma, Minoru : Autumn in a Village

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Nakata, Yoshinao : I Talked with the Fog

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Yamada, Kosaku : Being Kept Waiting in Vain

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Sugiyama, Haseo : An Outgoing Ship

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Dan, Ikuma : Lullaby

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Dan, Ikuma : Flowery Town

• Performers: Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor); Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1947
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Hashimoto, Kunihiko : Mother's Song

• Performers: Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor); Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Hirota, Ryutaro : Plover

• Performers: Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor); Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: by 1920
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Yanada, Sada : Rain in Johga-Sima

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: by 1913
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Nakata, Yoshinao : Over There, Over Yonder

• Performers: Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor); Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Fukui, Fumihiko : Dried Gourd Shavings

• Performers: Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor); Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Hirai, Kozaburo : That Child, This Child

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Hattori, Ryoichi : Suzhou Nocturne

• Performers: Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor); Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: by 1940
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Oanka, Megumi : An Old Road

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1945
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Hirota, Ryutaro : Strolling around an Old Castle in Komoro

• Performers: Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor); Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano)
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1925
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio

Taki, Rentaro : The Moon Over a Ruined Castle

• Performers: Natsuko Uchiyama (Piano); Yoshikazu Mera (Countertenor)
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1898
• Language: Japanese
• Studio/Live: Studio