Music from France for Flute & Piano Atsuko Koga & Fuminori Tanada

• Eugène Bozza (1905 - 1991): Agrestide, Op. 44:
• 1 Bozza: Agrestide, Op. 44 08:58
• André Caplet (1878 - 1925): 2 Petites pièces for Flute & Piano:
• 2 Caplet: 2 Petites pièces for Flute & Piano: No. 1, Rêverie 04:17
• 3 Caplet: 2 Petites pièces for Flute & Piano: No. 2, Petite valse 02:28
• Rika Suzuki (b. 1960): Réminiscence de... II:
• 4 Suzuki: Réminiscence de... II 06:50
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924): Morceau de concours for Flute & Piano:
• 5 Fauré: Morceau de concours for Flute & Piano 02:59
• Fuminori Tanada (b. 1961): Echoing Forest III:
• 6 Tanada: Echoing Forest III 09:18
• Gabriel Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13 (Arr. for Flute & Piano):
• 7 Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13 (Arr. for Flute & Piano): I. Allegro molto 08:47
• 8 Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13 (Arr. for Flute & Piano): II. Andante 07:12
• 9 Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13 (Arr. for Flute & Piano): III. Allegro vivo 04:01
• 10 Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major, Op. 13 (Arr. for Flute & Piano): IV. Allegro quasi presto 05:31
• Total Runtime 01:00:21

Info for Music from France for Flute & Piano

What could be more French than the silvery sound, dreamy arpeggios, and airy elegance of the flute? All the works on Atsuko Koga's new GENUIN production were composed in France and represent more than a century of flute history. All are also directly or indirectly connected to the tradition-rich Paris Conservatoire, where Eugène Bozza, André Caplet, and Gabriel Fauré studied and taught, as well as our two contemporaries, Fuminori Tanada and Rika Suzuki from Japan. The highly virtuosic pieces of these latter two composers – recorded here in world premiere recordings – were written for Atsuko Koga. They are as much a testament to her skill as the other Impressionist and early modern works.

Atsuko Koga, flute
Fuminori Tanada, piano

Atsuko Koga
Concert flutist Atsuko Koga was born in Fukuoka, Japan. After graduating in Tokyo, she transferred to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danses de Paris, where she completed her flute studies with distinction.

She has won awards at many international competitions, including First Prize at the Grand Concours International de l’Academie de Lutèce, the Grand Concours Gaston Crunelle et Lucien Wurmser and the Jeunesses Musicales in Bucharest. She has also earned a Second Prize at the Maria Canals International Music Competition in Barcelona, the Music Competition “Le splendere” by the Tokyo International Association of Art and the International Music Competition Caltanisetta in Italy.

She has been a soloist for, among others, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Kyūshū Philharmonic in Fukuoka, the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris, the Philharmonie Jeunesses Musicales in Bucharest and in Germany with the Magdeburgische Philharmonie, the Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie, the Ensemble Villa Musica, the Kammerphilharmonie Ascania, the Sofia Solisten and Gabrovo Chamber Orchestra, and performs each year with the Rossini-Quartett.

Atsuko Koga has received invitations to numerous music festivals. She is featured in many recordings for radio and television in Japan and Europe.

Fuminori Tanada
was born in 1961 in Okayama, Japan and studied at the National University of Art and Music in Tokyo as well as at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. He resides in Paris and divides his time between performing as a pianist and composing.

Since 1990 he has been the pianist of the Itinéraire ensemble for new music, for which he also composes. He has also been the official pianist of the flute class at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris since 1991, where he has served as professor of chamber music since 2014.

Most of Tanada’s compositions have been published by Éditions Henry Lemoine, Éditions IMD, and Éditions Gérard Billaudot. His works are performed all over the world. In 2015, for example, his F for flute solo, released by GENUIN classics, was a compulsory piece at the ARD International Music Competition.

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