04/06ピアノ三重奏曲の夕べ(トリオについて 端山貢明) (6 April: An evening of piano trios (with 'On the trio' by Hayama Kōmei))

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From the 端山貢明アーカイブ (Hayama Kōmei Archive), item 9958 in the 音楽(演奏会) category, registered 2022-10-04: https://d-commons.net/hayama/?c=&p=9958. Published by the 端山貢明アーカイブプロジェクト (Hayama Kōmei Archive Project), directed by 前川道博 (Michihiro Maekawa) of Nagano University, on the D-Commons platform, and licensed CC BY (表示). The source documents come from the 端山文庫, the papers kept in Hayama's laboratory at Tohoku University of Art and Design, digitised by the project with the agreement of his family; his autograph scores were given to the University History Archives of the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2026. Source: Maison Franco-Japonaise and the Japanese-French Music Society (日仏会館・日仏音楽協会); Maison Franco-Japonaise hall, Tokyo. Billed in French as Concert de musique de chambre française <1967>. Dated: Thursday 6 April 1967 (Shōwa 42), 6:30 p.m.. The archive publishes this item as 5 separate page scans rather than as a PDF; the download here was assembled from those scans in page order, each taken at the higher of the two resolutions the archive serves. The programme booklet for an all-French evening of piano trios at the Maison Franco-Japonaise, presented with the Japanese-French Music Society under the French title Concert de musique de chambre française <1967>. The players were Hattori Toyoko (violin), Suzuki Akira (cello) and Yasukawa Kazuko (piano) — the pianist who had played Hayama's sonata four and a half years earlier and who had taught him the piano. Three works were given: Fauré's Trio in D minor op. 120, Roussel's Trio in C minor op. 2, marked 初演 / Première as a Japanese premiere, and Ravel's Trio in A minor. Hayama appears here not as a composer but as the author of the booklet's commentary, 「トリオについて」. He begins with the coincidence that each of the three wrote exactly one piano trio, and with the medium's oddity: three highly expressive solo instruments, but two of them strings of similar character carrying the showy part while the piano covers both their ranges, so that in sonata form one of the three cannot state the theme as a soloist. Fauré's, written the year before his death at seventy-eight, he calls a long song in trio form, a swan song written as though its author knew nothing of Stravinsky or Schoenberg outside. Roussel, who meant to be a sailor and entered d'Indy's class at twenty-nine, produced in his op. 2 a work denser and purer than the later symphonies. In Ravel's the piano has overwhelming primacy and is written almost as a concerto; if the opening chordal theme is taken lightly, as salon music, the work's worth is halved. Contents as the document gives them: I ガブリエル・フォーレ：ピアノ三重奏曲 作品120 ニ短調 (Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, op. 120) · II アルベール・ルーセル：ピアノ三重奏曲 作品2 ハ短調（初演）(Roussel: Piano Trio in C minor, op. 2 — Japanese premiere) · III モーリス・ラヴェル：ピアノ三重奏曲 イ短調 (Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor) · トリオについて 端山貢明 ('On the trio', Hayama Kōmei) · Cover with the performers' names in French; Yamaha advertisement on the back cover. People named: 端山貢明 (Hayama Kōmei, author of the programme notes), 服部豊子 (Hattori Toyoko, violin), 鈴木聡 (Suzuki Akira, cello), 安川加寿子 (Yasukawa Kazuko, piano), ガブリエル・フォーレ (Gabriel Fauré), アルベール・ルーセル (Albert Roussel), モーリス・ラヴェル (Maurice Ravel), ヴァンサン・ダンディ (Vincent d'Indy, named in the note on Roussel). Noted: Pages 1 and 2 of the PDF are the same cover image. The programme romanises the cellist 鈴木聡 as 'Akira Suzuki'; the archive's description romanises the same name as Satoshi. Page 4 of this booklet is the single sheet catalogued separately as item 9959.