Songs of Japonisme surveys the musical influence of the Japonisme movement in the art-song repertoire of the early twentieth century. The works presented here are by both Japanese and Western composers, and the languages represented are Japanese, English, French, German and Czech. These songs are seldom performed, partly due to the effects of World War II, which resulted in the neglect of many composers. Most of these songs have never been recorded before.  Among the works on this CD that are recorded for the first time are an alternate version in C Major of Martinů’s Stopy ve sněhu from Nipponari (Czech), Yamada’s The bell of Dōjōji (English), Matsudaira’s Asakusa Overture (Japanese with clarinet obbligato) and Komatsu’s C’est un jour de printemps (French)