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Conductor Keitaro Harada, who released his full-fledged debut recording with the NHK Symphony Orchestra in June 2021, will release his second album of works related to Latin America with the same combination. The central work on this release is the "Bandoneon Concerto" by Astor Piazzolla, who celebrates the 100th anniversary of his birth in 2021 and is now arguably Argentina's most famous composer. Kazuma Miura, who performs bandoneon solo, is already a leading figure in the Japanese bandoneon world in his 30s, and has been described as "an ideal reproducer of the world of Piazzolla's music, which combines tango, jazz, and classical avant-garde sounds" (from journalist Takuo Ikeda's "Ikataku Honpo"), and here again, Keitaro Harada The recording is a definitive recording of Piazzolla's works, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is the definitive recording of this work. (C)RS