Suite symphonique

Masamicz Amano

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Subtitle: Gaia

General Info

Year: 2003-2007
Duration: c. 45:15
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher (second movement only): Cafua, through Yamaha Music
Cost: Score and Parts – Rental ($510.00)
Other movements: Unpublished

Movements

1. De la naissance de la terre au commencement de civilisation du monde (From the birth of the Earth to the beginning of world civilization) – 12:05
2. Le mouvement qui considère l'influence que l'humanité cause à l'environnement terrestre - Développement de civilisation, guerre et effondrements (The movement that considers the influence that humanity causes to the earth environment. Development of civilization, war and collapses) – 13:05
3. Le mouvement a offert à toutes les victimes de guerre dans l'histoire de la terre (The movement offered to all victims of the war in the history of the Earth) – 5:00
4. Finale – 15:55

Instrumentation

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Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This is a large-scale work in four movements, imaginatively conceived on a macroscopic scale, with a contemporary theme of the global environment in mind. It is grand in its grandeur, but rather than making a visual show and appealing to the audience, it sets up the sound of discord in a calm and soothing manner, and works to provoke contemplation. It's a full-bodied sound.

This original work for wind band is a work of unprecedented scale and power, in which various sounds are intertwined and scenes seem to come to mind.

- Program Note from publisher (Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator)

This very large-scale work was completed in 2008 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Hamamatsu Symphonic Wind Orchestra.

The symphonic suite has a duration of over 50 minutes, and it is inspired by Gaia, which in Greek mythology is the ancestral mother of all life.

- Program Note from WASBE

Media

Audio: Reference recording. Hamamatsu (Japan) Symphonic Wind Orchestra (Tohru Asada, conductor)
Audio CD: Hamamatsu (Japan) Symphonic Wind Orchestra (Tohru Asada, conductor) - 2008

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Works for Winds by This Composer

Alas de Hierro (2004)
Byakudan (2014)
Bohemian Rhapsody (as arranger)
Concerto Grosso (2002/2008)
El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Suite No 2 (as arranger) (1919/2009)
Emanacje i Medytacje Part I (1999)
Emanacje i Medytacje Part II (2001)
Expiation (1999)
Gaia. See: Suite symphonique
GR Selection (2001/2008)
Kokyou (2009)
La forme de chaque amour change comme le Kaleidoscope (2003)
La suite excentrique (2004)
Libération (2020/2022)
OHNAI (2001)
Paraphrase par "Statique et Extatique" avec un prologue et l'epilogue (2016)
Preludio espressiva (2017)
Ryoku (2013)
Suite symphonique (2008)
Symphonic Suite No 2 "GR" (2000)
Symphony No. 1 "Gral" (2007-2010)
Taku Chi Sui for Wind Ensemble (2013)
Ten Rai Mu Bou (2013)
Yugagyo Chugan - azuma kagami ibun (2000)

Resources

"Profile". (in Japanese) Hamamatsu Symphonic Wind Orchestra Website. Accessed 10 January 2023
"Suite Symphonique 'GAIA' 2 mov". (in Japanese) Cafua Website. Accessed 10 January 2023
"GAIA – Symphonic Suite for Wind Orchestra by Masamichi (Masamicz) Amano (Japan, 1957)." WASBE. Web. (Featured as WASBE’s Composition of the Week, 9 January 2023). Accessed 9 January 2023