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World premiere recording of Lecoux's sonatas in flute version expanding the area of Jiro Yoshioka's cutting-edge and originals A magnificent sonata album by Jiro Yoshioka (flute) and Hiroshi Nagao (piano). This groundbreaking recording of sonatas by Lecoux (world premiere flute version), Pierné, and Franck (all originals are sonatas for violin and piano), features the virtuosity of the two players on flute and piano. Jiro Yoshioka, flute Graduated from Musashino Academia Musicae and received the highest grade of National Performer's Certificate from the University of Music and Performing Arts Basel, Switzerland. 2002-03: Trainee of the Basel Symphony Orchestra. 2004: Returned to Japan. He won the second prize in the piccolo section of the 12th JFC Competition and the highest prize in the 3rd Tokyo Music Competition. He has performed with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, and others. 2008-09 Principal of the Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra. 2010-11 Registered Artist for Regional Artists. 2018 Solo recital at Carnegie Hall Recital Hall in New York. 2019 Solo recital at the Brahmssaal of the Musikverein in Vienna. in 2019, and performed a concerto by Reinecke at the Vienna Musikverein Brahmssaal in 2019. He has released six solo CD albums. She studied flute under Takashi Shirao, F. Lengri, Kiyoshi Kasai, and R. Grice-Almin. Lecturer at Toho Gakuen College of Art and Music and Senzoku Gakuen College of Music. He is a flutist of the Theater Orchestra Tokyo and the Chiba Symphony Orchestra. Hiroshi Nagao,guitarHiroshi Nagao received his master's degree from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and the Graduate School of the same university. He received the Ataka Prize. Studied at Ecole Normale in Paris in 1995, and has performed with major orchestras such as NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, and Osaka Symphony Orchestra, given solo recitals, premiered many domestic and international works, and appeared in major music festivals, NHK and other media. In addition to media appearances on NHK, he has collaborated with wind and string players in Japan and abroad, including Maxence Larrieu (flute), Jean-Yves Fourmeau (saxophone), and Pavel Bellman (violin).CDs include "Evocation", "Ravel & Debussy" (Live Notes), "Playing Liszt & Reger" (Kojima Recording), and the ongoing "Hiroshi Nagao Pianism Series" (Recording Laboratory), as well as numerous solo CDs with Michel Becquet (trombone), Walter Auer (flute), Etsuko Kano ( Etsuko Kano (mezzo-soprano), and many CDs. She is one of the few performers who can deliver beautiful sound with a transparent core, and music that is hot and fresh with precise and exquisite technique.