Credits:

Fujiki Daichi

Description:

Daichi Fujiki's major debut album, the first ever by a Japanese countertenor and the first ever by an Oriental countertenor. The album features the world acclaimed "Ave Maria" in Daichi's beautiful high tone voice, the album title track "Ai no Yoroboi wa" (The Joy of Love), Faure's "Pied Jesu" and "Amazing Grace," and various other forms of love. The album also includes the original version of the theme song for the movie "Hanalei Bay," written by Haruki Murakami (with world-renowned vocal accompanist Martin Katz), and music by Bernstein, who celebrated his 100th birthday this year!

Tracklisting:

1 AVE VERUM CORPUS / FUJIKI DAICHI
2 AVE MARIA / FUJIKI DAICHI
3 PLAISIR D'AMOUR / FUJIKI DAICHI
4 WIDMUNG / FUJIKI DAICHI
5 AVE MARIA / FUJIKI DAICHI
6 DIE LOTOSBLUME / FUJIKI DAICHI
7 ES MUSS EIN WUNDERBARES SEIN / FUJIKI DAICHI
8 URLICHT-SYM. NO.2 'AUFERSTEHUNG' / FUJIKI DAICHI
9 ORPHEUS WITH HIS LUTE / FUJIKI DAICHI
10 SILENT NOON-'THE HOUSE OF LIFE' / FUJIKI DAICHI
11 A SIMPLE SONG-'MASS' / FUJIKI DAICHI
12 AVE MARIA / FUJIKI DAICHI
13 A CHLORIS / FUJIKI DAICHI
14 PIE JESU-'REQUIEM' / FUJIKI DAICHI
15 PANIS ANGELICUS / FUJIKI DAICHI
16 AMAZING GRACE / FUJIKI DAICHI