Hisato Ohzawa: Symphony No. 3 "Of the Founding of Japan" (1937)
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- Russian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by / Orquesta Filarmónica Rusa dirigida por Dmitry Yablonsky.
I. Allegretto risoluto - Allegro (0:00)
II. Adagio Grazioso (12:37)
III. Moderato (17:51)
IV. Allegro non troppo con fuoco (26:42)
Hisato Ohzawa is nowadays one of Japan’s most obscured composers, probably because in some way he “betrayed” his initially modernist ideals. Indeed, Ohzawa was one of the most cosmopolitan composers in the day, promoting modernist and revolutionary musical structures in Paris, city which became after WWI the center of musical avant-garde. Nonetheless, Ohzawa faced enormous hostility from Japanese art circles that cared more about nationalism in times where a fascist state was on the rise in the Land of the Rising Sun. His Symphony No. 3 belongs exactly to that period when he had to shift from plain modernism to extoll national pride. It is mostly a historical symphony in the sense it was inspired in “The Founding of Japan”: An ancient island nation, the Japanese people conceives its foundation with the enthronization of legendary emperor or “ten-no” Jinmu, child of the rising sun goddess Amaterasu, which happened more than 25 centuries ago. During 1940, an algid year for world history, this nation celebrated its 2600 anniversary. Whilst Ohzawa had composed the work three years earlier, it was only premiered during Japan’s anniversary; celebration to which national and international composers, such as Strauss or Britten, submitted works as gift. Its pages are filled with synthetizations of Japanese folk music with Western Late Romantic techniques, concluding with a hymn celebrating Japan’s “union” with the West.
Hisato Ohzawa es uno de los compositores más desconocidos de Japón, en parte porque de cierta forma, se vio visto a “traicionar” sus ideales modernistas. Ciertamente, Ohzawa era inicialmente uno de los compositores más cosmopolitas de su tiempo, promoviendo formas musicales modernistas y revolucionarias en París; ciudad que se convertiría en sinónimo de vanguardia musical tras la 1GM. Sin embargo, Ohzawa enfrentó gran hostilidad en los círculos de arte japoneses, a quienes les importaba más el nacionalismo en tiempos en los que un estado fascista se alzaba sobre la Tierra del Sol Naciente. Su Tercer pertenece a ese periodo en el que tuvo que cambiar de ser un modernista a ensalzar el orgullo nacional. Ésta es una sinfonía histórica en el sentido que se inspira en “la fundación de Japón”. Siendo una antigua nación isleña, el pueblo japonés considera la fecha de su fundación la entronización del Emperado Jinmu, hijo de la diosa del sol naciente Amaterasu, misma que ocurrió hace más de 25 siglos. Durante 1940, año álgido para la historia mundial, ésta nación celebró su aniversario 2600. Si bien Ohzawa compuso la obra tres años antes, ésta sólo se estrenó durante el aniversario del Japón; celebración a la que compositores nacionales e internacionales, como Strauss o Britten, ofrecieron obras como regalo. Las páginas de la obra están llenas de síntesis de música folclórica japonesa con uso de técnicas del romanticismo tardío occidental, concluyendo con un himno que celebra la “unión” de Japón con Occidente.
Image/imagen: The dreadful Japanese Fleet. Artist unknown. / La temible flota japonesa. Artista desconocido. N.D. 
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this is actually really good, just a few minutes in and already enraptured by it. I am going to listen to more from this composer for now..
What an amazing discovery! I certainly will play this over and over. Captures some good pre-WWII internationally inspired music.
I have doubts, if pre-war Japan can be called a "fascist state". It surely was a nationalistic-authoritarian state, but fascism was something different.
exactly
Hello！ I am Tetsuya Nishibe, a Japanese composer. are you czech？ Japan during World War II is a little different from fascism. The military was in power, but there was no dictator. The emperor was not a dictator, not even the prime minister was a dictator. It also means that there is no strong leader. The same is true in Japan today.
Hello! Well, I am Polish :) I've read about Japan pre war and wartime politics, and as far as I know, there was indeed strong influence of the military to the governement, which was quite weak. And a rivalry between the Navy and Army ministries as well. Emperor Hirohito was not so strong like his grandfahter.... People these days are like to call any authoritarian regime fascist, regardless of whether it actually was one.... Pre war Poland also had a type of authoritatrain regime, called "Sanacja", started by Marshall Pisłudski. But still it was not a Fascism itself, or a totalitarian regime, like in pre war Italy, Germany or Soviet Union. Two regimes, because of my country had much suffered - first from the side of the Germans, then form the side of Russians... Greetings form Poland! By the way - you have really brilliant composers in Japan! :)
Una obra agradable, aunque bastante conservadora y no de lo más original que escribió Ohzawa.
Why are usual, hostile messages from Chinese people absent here??
They are busy with sending hate to Americans right now.
Idk but I'm Chinese and I find this beautiful sounding
Stricken with the flu, I guess? : ))
Nah, it's usually Koreans who are always plaguing videos about Japan. They have an obsession or something.
Because music is a international language. I am Chinese and I must say I LOVE this great work by some unsunk musical heros from the Far East.