Two Japanese Idylls by Martin Max Schreiner - Aaron Larget-Caplan, Guitar 0:01 - Introduction • 0:57 - Japanese Idyll 1 •5:07 - Japanese Idyll 2 Purchase/Download the studio recording on Stone Records: http://stonerecords.co.uk/album/the-legend-of-hagoromo/ COMPOSER NOTE: "Two Japanese Idylls are a complimentary pair of pieces for guitar that incorporate the sensibilities of traditional music from Japan written in 2013 for Aaron Larget-Caplan. They are intended to be a mindful exploration and reinterpretation of the tradition through the performer’s engagement with the score and aural experience with traditional Japanese folk and classical music. The first idyll is lyrical and outwardly expansive through its long phrases, slowly unfolding harmony and rhythmic focus on the long-term harmonic cadences. While the first idyll creates a feeling of timelessness, the second idyll is angular and inwardly spiraling through its intricate moment-to-moment rhythmic figurations. This second i