山田流 箏 名曲のすべて
BEST COLLECTION OF KOTO MUSIC (YAMADA SCHOOL)
CBS SONY, 1973, SOJH 11
Several koto players (mainly women) are on this record : Masaki Uehara, Eisei Takahasi, Sizuko Yamase, Mikio Noguchi, Masue Fukuchi, Shôin Hagioka, Okazono Shôji and Masae Ôtsuka.
There are two schools for koto music : Ikuta and Yamada. This school was started by Yamada Kengyo during the 18th century at Edo (Tokyo). The school incorporated the genre called ''joruri''which was a sort of storytelling/song accompanied by the shamisen. Hence the frequent association of koto playing and singing.
Side A presents three instrumental pieces with two duets and one solo. The album starts with Rokudan a very famous composition for koto originally, going back to the 17th century and later played on other instruments.
Side B is about koto played along with other instruments (shamisen and shakuhachi). All the pieces have a singing section.
The koto has been one of the main instruments in Japanese musical culture especially when its practice was open to modest people during the 19th century. It's interesting to compare this album and the one I posted (28 November 2021) by Hiromu Handa and appreciate the evolution of koto music.
Text in Japanese.
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