Tomita and his synthesizer may have scored a success here by not trying to reproduce all the colors of the symphonic rainbow.ĭrawbacks? Purists will say this isn't really Debussy, that Tomita takes too many liberties with the scores, that the original composer would not recognize his own music.
#ISAO TOMITA SNOWFLAKES ARE DANCING RAR FULL#
Besides "Snowflakes," there are such familiar tunes as "Reverie," "Clair de lune," "The Engulfed Cathedral," "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair," "Golliwog's Cakewalk," and others, plus a bonus track of "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" from Tomita's 1975 LP, "Firebird." Although I realize that all of the original piano selections were long ago adapted for full orchestra, Mr. The selections translate well into the world of the Moog synthesizer probably because they were mostly written for solo piano.
#ISAO TOMITA SNOWFLAKES ARE DANCING RAR SERIES#
Nevertheless, "Snowflakes" did strong business and continues to sound good in this remastered "High Performance" CD edition from RCA.Ī series of short selections from the pen of French impressionist composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918) make up the program. The late Japanese composer and performer Isao Tomita (1932-2016), one of the pioneers of the musical synthesizer, made quite a splash in 1974 with his album of electronic music, "Snowflakes Are Dancing." RCA's rear-cover blurb states, "The blockbuster album that started it all." But I rather suspect RCA forgot about Wendy Carlos, whose "Switched-on Bach" from 1968 predates "Snowflakes" by some years.
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