Akira Ifukube

Akira Ifukube was a Japanese composer born in Kushiro, Hokkaido in 1914 who began composing orchestral works in the 1930s and later became active as a film composer. His musical style combined elements of Japanese and Ainu folk music with robust orchestration, emphasising percussion and modal melodic writing, and over his career he alternated between concert composition and film scoring, bringing folk-derived motifs and symphonic techniques into postwar Japanese cinema.

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協奏三題

大魔神 (映画オリジナルBGMコレクション)

Symphonic Fantasia = SF交響ファンタジー第１番 / Symphonic Ode: Gotama The Buddha In Pali Language = 交響頌偈「釈迦」

Japanese Orchestral Music

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伊福部昭の世界-1 伊福部昭交響二題

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Japanese Rhapsody / Symphonic Ballad / Cantilena Ballabile sul modo di giappone

Bintatara: Selected Works of Akira Ifukube

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Pipa Xing - Works Of Akira Ifukube For 25-string Koto

Japanese Orchestral Favourites

吹奏楽作品集

Sinfonia Tapkaara / Ritmica Ostinata / Symphonic Fantasia no. 1

大魔神

傘寿記念シリーズ

That's Akira Ifukube

Akira Ifukube Best Classics

Bukimisha: Godzilla Vs. Rodan - The Spiritual Voices of Akira Ifukube

Akira Kurosawa Early Soundtracks

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