Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Danza (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Hitomi Niikura is a sought-after soloist and chamber musician who performs regularly at international venues in Japan and Switzerland. She has released several albums with EMI Japan and Sony Music Direct, most recently a recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto. She has appeared as a soloist with the Tokyo Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic and Bangkok Royal Symphony orchestras and has performed for the Japanese imperial couple at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.

Hitomi has toured Switzerland and Japan with the Cheibe Balagan klezmer band, which was featured in the Swiss film Wolkenbruch and is scheduled to perform at several festivals this year.

Hitomi has been traveling since she was a child. Born in Tokyo, she lived for several years in San Francisco, received her first cello lessons in Düsseldorf and played her first concerts in Tokyo. She graduated with honors from the Basel Academy of Music and now lives between Zurich and Tokyo.

TRACKLIST

01. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Sicilienne, Op. 78
02. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - The Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a, TH 234: V. Waltz (Arr. for Cello & Piano)
03. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Suite for Variety Orchestra: VII. Waltz No. 2 in C Minor (Arr. for Cello & Piano)
04. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Danse macabre, Op. 40, R. 171 (Arr. for Cello & Piano)
05. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): No. 1, Stick Dance
06. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): No. 2, Sash Dance
07. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): No. 3, In One Spot
08. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): No. 4, Dance from Bucsum
09. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): No. 5, Romanian Polka
10. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): No. 6, Fast Dance
11. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Sicilienne in E Minor (After Handel's HWV 369)
12. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Suite française, FP 80 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): I. Bransle de Bourgogne
13. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Suite française, FP 80 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): II. Pavane
14. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Suite française, FP 80 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): III. Petite marche militaire
15. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Suite française, FP 80 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): IV. Complainte
16. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Suite française, FP 80 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): V. Bransle de Champagne
17. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Suite française, FP 80 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): VI. Sicilienne
18. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Suite française, FP 80 (Arr. for Cello & Piano): VII. Carillon
19. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Serenade, Op. 54 No. 2
20. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68
21. Hitomi Niikura & Yuri Umemura - España, Op. 165, B. 37: No. 2, Tango (Arr. A. Christopherson for Cello & Piano)



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