Ikuma Dan: Symphony No. 5, "Suruga" (1965)

Ikuma Dan: Symphony No. 5, "Suruga" (1965)
Ikuma Dan (1924~2001, Japan)
Symphony No.5 "Suruga" (1965)
I. Andante sostenuto - Allegro moderato 16:17
II. Scherzo (Allegro vivo) 9:06
III. Ten Variations on an Old-Fashioned Theme 15:00
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Ikuma Dan, conducting
Recorded: June, 1988
Suruga Province (駿河国 Suruga no kuni) was an old province in the area that is today the central part of Shizuoka Prefecture.[1] Suruga bordered on Izu, Kai, Sagami, Shinano, and Tōtōmi provinces; and was bordered by the Pacific Ocean through Suruga Bay to the south. Its abbreviated form name was Sunshū (駿州). (Ref: Wikipedia)
Ikuma Dan (團 伊玖磨 Dan Ikuma, 7 April 1924 - 17 May 2001) was a Japanese composer.
Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Conservatory of Music in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Saburō Moroi, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Kunihiko Hashimoto, and Midori Hosokawa.
During his career, he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of film scores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China (from 1979 until his death in Suzhou, China, in 2001), and received the commission to write an opera (Takeru) for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan's main opera house.
Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru (Twilight Crane), which is regularly revived there (Ref: Wikipedia)
• Symphony No. 1 in A (1948-49/56-57)
• Symphony à la Burlesque (1954)
• Symphony No. 2 in B♭ (1955-56/88)
• Symphony No. 3 (1960)
• Symphony No. 4 "1965 Kanagawa" (1965)
• Symphony No. 5 "Suruga" (1965)
• Sinfonietta (1974)
• Symphony No. 6 "Hiroshima" for soprano, nohkan, shinobue and orchestra, text by Edmund Blunden (1985)
• Symphony No. 7 "Jashūmon (Heretics)", text by Hakushū Kitahara - unfinished

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large-scale and magnificent symphony unique to Dan Ikuma

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