The Golden Apples Of The Sun is the debut solo recording by brilliant young Japanese percussionist, Yasuaki Fukuhara, accompanied in 4 tracks by Leyland Band conducted by Richard Evans.

Yasuaki began playing percussion at the age of 15, and received a Bachelor of Psychology degree from the the Nihon (Japan) University in 2009 before beginning studying percussion at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Leyland were delighted that he spent his final year in England with the band in which time he recorded this CD.

Yasuaki aims to expand the repertoire for solo percussion with brass band accompaniment, so Leyland Band of which he has been a member since 2013 were delighted to help realise his ambitions to record new music.

This recording contains the premiere recordings of four accompanied solos featuring Yasuaki playing percussion instruments of all shapes and timbres.

Tracks:

1.	Battlefield	David Danford	[3’33”]
2.	Dream of the Cherry Blossoms ˆ	Keiko Abe	[5’51”]
3.	Texas Hoedown ˆ	David Friedman	[7’03”]
4 – 6	Marimba Concerto	David Danford
	i   1st Movement		[4’55”]
	ii   2nd Movement		[5’12”]
	iii  3rd Movement		[4’42”]
7.	Suomineito ˆ	Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic	[4’20”]
8.	Anthracite Dances	James McFadyen	[4’55”]
9.	Transformation of Pachelbel’s Canon ˆ	Nanae Mimura	[8’18”]
10 – 12	The Golden Apples of the Sun	Rodney Newton
	i   Through hollow lands and hilly lands		[7’38”]
	ii   The silver apples of the moon		[5’54”]
	iii   The golden apples of the sun		[4’13”]

Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12 –  Yasuaki accompanied by Leyland Band

Tracks 2, 3, 7, 9 – Yasuaki unaccompanied