In a book I read in high school, perhaps Hiroyuki Agawa's Reading the Analects without Knowing It, there was a passage that said that the melody of the famous piece that everyone knows, "Akatonbo" (Red Dragonfly) by Kosaku Yamada, appears many times in Schumann's "Prologue and Allegro Concertante Op. 134." Junnosuke Yoshiyuki told me about it, and when we listened to the record together, we suddenly said, "There it is!"
After reading this story, I really wanted to hear this song, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be performed very often, and the CD was unavailable at the time.
Thirty years later, I finally listened to "Introduction and Allegro Concertante." It was truly "there it is!" So please listen.
♫ Schumann's Red Dragonfly, or rather, Introduction and Concert Allegro
However, as expected from Naxos, there are several versions. The above is an excerpt from the following performance.
Schumann: Introduction and Allegro Concertante
Introduction and Concert Allegro, Op. 134
- Florian Uhlig - Florian Uhlig (piano)
- Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra – German Radio Saarbrucken-Kaiserslautern Philharmonic Orchestra
- Christoph Poppen – Christoph Poppen (conductor)