The First Branch from Mabinogi - Pwyll Prince of Dyfed, Part 1 - Composed by Suguru Minamide

The First Branch from Mabinogi - Pwyll Prince of Dyfed, Part 1

Composed, Produced & Directed by
Suguru Minamide http://sGuru.jp

Performed by
Suguru Minamide (Piano)
Ayaka Yonemoto (Synthesizers) http://AyakaPiano.jp
Ffion Browning (Narration)

♪1 Opening Theme / オープニングテーマ
♪1-2 Misty Welsh hills / 霧かかるウェールズの丘
♪2 Glyn Cuch, the entrance to the other world / グリン・キッフの樹海、異界アヌーヴンへの入り口
♪2-2 King Arawn, the king of the otherworldly kingdom. (Improvisation) / アラウン王、異界アヌーヴン王国　(即興演奏）
♪3 Arawn’s Court / アラウンの宮廷
♪3-2 Banquet / 宴会
♪3-3 Chamber / 寝室
♪4 Duel (Improvisation) / 決闘 (即興演奏）
♪5 Meeting with Arawn in Glyn Cuch (Improvisation) / グリン・キッフの樹海、アラウン王との再会（即興演奏）
♪6 Banguet at Arawn’s Court / アラウンの宮廷での宴会
♪6-2 Arawn’s Chamber / アラウンの寝室
♪7 Pwyll’s Court / プウィスの宮廷
♪8 Ending Theme / エンディングテーマ

マビノギの4つの物語（4つの枝）
第１話：ダヴェドの頭領プウィス（前半）

あらすじ
　ウェールズ南西部ダヴェドの領主プウィス王子は、ある日狩に行くことを思いつき自分の領地のグリン・キッフに向かう。狩の最中に家来たちとはぐれてしまい、そこに現れた異界の王国アヌーヴンの王アラウンの怒りを買う事となる。その償いにプウィスはアラウンの魔法によってアラウンの姿となり、アラウンの宮廷に1年間身を置き、アラウンもまたプウィスの姿となってプウィスの宮廷で一年を過ごす。
　その年の終わりにアラウンの姿のプウィスは、アラウンの宿敵ハウガンと決闘し見事にハウガンを倒す。その後プウィスはアラウンと再会し元の姿を取り戻し、お互いの宮廷に戻っていく。
　異国アヌーヴンに戻ったアラウンは王妃からプウィスが誠実で義理堅い王子だったことを知らされる。そして彼らの友情は更に強く結ばれる事となり、プウィスはペン・アヌーヴン（アヌーヴンの元首）の呼び名がつく。


◼︎Suguru Minamide / Creator, music producer, pianist and composer.
Born in Kobe, Japan, he moved to Cardiff, Wales, when he was 13. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, he was involved in various multicultural projects in Wales, including the UK-Japan Festival in 2001. After spending 15 years in Wales, he returned to Japan. As a music producer, he has managed orchestras in India & Kazakhstan, and run various international music festivals, competitions and concerts for foreign artists, including world-renowned violinist Shlomo Mintz. He has also supported Sir Karl Jenkins, Adiemus and LIBELA for their concerts in Japan. In 2009, to create more awareness of women's equality in Japan, he founded the Bloom Quartet & Ensemble, the first major Japanese professional string orchestra consisting of only young female musicians. This was followed by founding two more orchestras in Kobe and Nagoya. Bloom has become the nation's largest female-only string orchestras. In 2011, he founded the Tohoku Kodomo Orchestra in Koriyama, Fukushima, as part of his post-earthquake Tohoku regeneration project. This pioneer initiative led to many other junior orchestras being founded in Tohoku. He currently produces classical artists and runs classical concerts and dinner shows throughout Japan. In 2023, he performed with Stuart Varnam-Atkin in the FCCJ event "A September Soiree” as a pianist and composer. In 2024, he became the director of Music for St David’s Society Japan.

http://sGuru.jp

◼︎Ayaka Yonemoto / Guest Pianist (Synthesizers)
Born in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from Mukogawa Women's University and completing its postgraduate course, she took a diploma course at École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot”. Since then she has received numerous competition prizes including 5th prize in the 29th Japan Classical Music Competition, Ist prize in the 13th Beten Music Competition and an Outstanding Performance Award in the 13th Kobe Newcomer Music Award. In 2020, she signed an exclusive contract with Music Inc., produced by Suguru Minamide and started her career as a concert pianist. In 2022 she performed for a series of concerts in association with West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and appeared in "Terroir de Kobe" dinner shows in a Sake brewery in Kobe. In 2023 she performed on a restored antique piano owned by the late Akio Morita, the founder of SONY, and also recorded the CD "Pianist Ayaka Yonemoto Plays Akio Morita's Piano”.

http://AyakaPiano.jp

◼︎Ffion Browning / Narrator
Born in Cardiff, Wales, she attended Welsh-language schools up until University. During her education, she took part in plays and musicals in both English and Welsh. She participated every year in the National Eisteddfod of Wales, a festival celebrating Welsh arts, language and culture, and would often rank in top 3 of the country with her school's choir and in performance categories. Outside of school, she participated in the youth theatre group MyUK in a performance of Les Miserables, with songs then presented as part of a showcase on the West End to promote young performers alongside current musical theatre artists. She studied Japanese Studies and Sociology at Oxford Brookes University. During an exchange year at Kitakyushu University, she assisted in presenting assemblies about Welsh culture and language to the people of Kitakyushu after the popular 2019 Rugby World Cup. While working at National Resources Wales, she created resources for Welsh schools about Japanese nature to aid in cultural awareness after the launch of the Sakura Cherry Tree Project in Wales. She has been working as an English teacher in Tokyo since returning to Japan in 2023.


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