Kaori Muraji

Kaori Muraji – Soleil: Portraits 2 (2010/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Kaori Muraji - Soleil: Portraits 2 (2010/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Kaori Muraji (村治佳織; born 14 April 1978) is a Japanese classical guitarist. She is the first Japanese artist to have signed an exclusive international contract with Decca Music Group.

Muraji learned to play the guitar from the age of 3 on. First she was taught by her father and from the age of ten by the guitarist Shinichi Fukuda. In the early 1990s she won several guitar competition in Japan and in 1993 gave her debut recital in the Tsuda Hall. In the same year she published with Espressivo her first album and in the following she had her Orchestra debut with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1997 she moved to Europe to study under Alberto Ponce at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. After her graduation 1999 she moved back to Japan.
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Kaori Muraji – Kaori Muraji Plays Bach (2008) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Kaori Muraji - Kaori Muraji Plays Bach (2008) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Decca’s Kaori Muraji Plays Bach doesn’t make any pretensions toward representing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in his historical element as has become commonplace. The orchestra used to accompany star guitarist Kaori Muraji in transcriptions of two Bach harpsichord concertos and the Air on a G String (to utilize this movement’s popular title), the so-called Leipzig Bach Collegium, is a typical chamber orchestra made up of modern instruments, played in a modern way; sometimes the string basses even employ pizzicato effects, a device alien to Bach in his known orchestral scores. Likewise the part-writing in the orchestral accompaniments have been tweaked, particularly in the Air on a G String where figures in the solo part interact in a dialogue with similar gestures in the orchestra; a feature that will certainly cause Bach purists in the audience to say, “What the hell?” To get to first base with Kaori Muraji Plays Bach one will need to be able to accept the long-held notion that Bach can just about survive any treatment one can put him through or to simply not to care about the matter. Muraji, as is her wont, plays just as well here as she does on her other discs, and the solo pieces – “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” (which sounds a little like it is overdubbed) the D minor Violin Partita and, as a bonus track, the Minuets BWV Anh. 114-115 once attributed to Bach and now known as the work of Christian Pezold are the highlights of the disc. In the orchestrally accompanied tracks Muraji is often a little buried in the mix and the tone of the string group is a little heavy, sounding a little like the “Baroque orchestras” common to recordings made in the 1950s and ’60s. It’s not too much of a distraction, though, and the reading of the oft-transcribed “Siciliano” in the E major harpsichord concerto is genuinely lovely.
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Kaori Muraji – Transformations (2005/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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With this 2005 release, Tokyo-born classical guitarist Kaori Muraji became the first Japanese artist to sign an exclusive international contract with Decca Records. She kicks things off with four Beatles songs on a programme that touches on The Wizard of Oz and includes two songs by Sting, on which Muraji is joined by Sting’s guitarist Dominic Miller.

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Kaori Muraji – Rhapsody Japan (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Kaori Muraji was born in Tokyo in 1978. Her first guitar lessons were from her father, Noboru Muraji, when she was 3 years old. She won the top prize at the 1989 Junior Guitar Contest, and was the winner of the Student Guitar Competition in two consecutive years 1989 and 1991. She was the youngest ever student to win the Leo Brouwer International Guitar Concours and Tokyo International Guitar Concours in 1992.

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Kaori Muraji – Portrait (2010) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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On this 2009 collection, Tokyo-born classical guitarist Kaori Muraji performs a diverse range of selections for solo guitar including pop tunes Tears In Heaven and In My Life, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, a medley from West Side Story and Chopin’s Nocturne No. 2.

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Kaori Muraji – Music Gift to (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Kaori Muraji herself selected popular repertoires such as popular songs, movie music and classical masterpieces, centering on her repertoire that she often plays in recent performances. The songs selected with the desire to send healing and ale with music to all those who endure the corona wreck are a collection of gems that are loved across genres. In addition, Kaori Muraji’s feelings are included in the album title.

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Kaori Muraji – Cinema – Movie Themes For Classical Guitar (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Kaori Muraji is considered one of the most prominent classical guitarists of today, and her challenges and activities are always regarded with keen interest by the entire classical music community.

Born in Tokyo, Japan Kaori Muraji received her first lessons on the guitar from her father Noboru Muraji at the age of three.

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