Takashi Yoshimatsu Piano Concerto Memo Flora (w, sheet)

Played by Japan philharmonic orchestra conducted by Sachio Fujioka Written as a Memorandum on flowers, this concerto for piano consists of three movements: Flower, Petals and Bloom, that are, respectively, fast, slow and fast. The Words Memo Flora were written by the poet Kenji Miyazawa on the cover of a notebook that contained notes for a diagram of the placement of flowers (melody) in a flowerbed (score). 1. Flower An Allegro in a pseudosonata form celebrating flowers blooming quietly in a spring field against a background of shifting colors. As the texture of birds, described by the woodwind draws close by, the piano sweeps through a spring storm and into a blue sky. 2. Petals A light Andante, like flower petals floating on the water. A faint song on the quietly flowing water appears and disappears like a dream of long ago. 3. Bloom The finale, in which spring speed away from the spring field, in full bloom. A 4, 8 and 5, 8 rondo that dashes lightly into the dista