6月１０日（木曜日）２０２１
中嶋俊晴さん（彦根出身、カウンターテナー）と谷川賢作さん（ピアノ、作編曲）の「家族をうたう」と題するコンサートが彦根市文化プラザでありました。プログラムは谷川俊太郎さんの詩が御子息の賢作さんによって作曲されたものが殆どで語るような賢作さんのピアノと中嶋さんの繊細で明瞭な言葉の響きが音に乗って美しく語られる詩の世界。賢作さんと中嶋さんの感性の合体作といった印象でした。それから、今回は歌の合間に子供達の詩の数々や詩人谷川俊太郎、八木重吉、高階杞一、藤川幸之助の作品が賢作さんと中嶋さんによって語られたのがとてもよかったです。子供達の真っ直ぐな詩、馴染みの詩「うつむく青年」、子を思う母と母を思う子の重吉、幼児を失った父、認知症の母を慰る父、すべてが心に深く届きました。賢作さんの子供達の詩、最高！中嶋さんの藤川幸之助の詩、胸に迫りました。素晴らしいコンサートで疲れもストレスも吹き消えてしまいました。
I went to the concert of Toshiharu Nakajima and Kensaku Tanikawa entitled "Sing about family" at Hikone City Cultural Plaza. Toshiharu Nakajima is a countertenor opera singer from Hikone and Kensaku Tanikawa is a pianist and composer. Most of the songs were by poet, Shuntaro Tanikawa and composed by Kensaku who is the son of Shuntato Tanikawa and they were played by Kensaku's piano and sung by Toshiharu Nakajima. Kensaku played piano as he spoke and Nakajima sang the poems with a clear and expressive voice. It was a beautiful world of poems collaborated by those two artists who both have great sensitivity. They also read many poems between the songs which were so impressive. There were many children's poems and poems by Japanese poets Shuntaro Tanikawa, Jyukichi Yagi, Kiichi Takai and Konosuke Fujikawa. Children's poems were fresh and lively. Shuntaro's "Young man who is looking down" was familiar to me, and Yagi's ”Thinking of mother" was impressive. The former was a poem about a father who lost his little boy and the latter poem was about a father's deep consideration toward his mother who is suffering from dementia. All these poems were amazing. I liked the reading of children's poems by Kansaku and I was moved by Fujikawa's last poem read by Nakajima. It was a wonderful concert and all my stress and fatigue were washed away.
