Japan’s Ryuichi Sakamoto, identified for his digital music, together with the rating for “The Last Emperor,” on Monday completed streaming a live performance which may be the final for the Academy-award-winning composer, who’s combating stage 4 most cancers.

Sakamoto, 70, mentioned in an internet message in December that the unorthodox efficiency – broadcast to greater than two dozen nations world wide – took place as a result of he may not full a daily live performance.

“My strength has really fallen, so a normal concert of about an hour to ninety minutes would be very difficult,” he mentioned. “As a result, I’ve recorded it song by song and edited it together so it can be presented as a regular concert – which I believe can be pleasurable in the normal way. Enjoy.”

The live performance, which featured a Sakamoto solo on piano for 13 of the songs, included themes from “The Last Emperor” and “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence,” during which he acted alongside David Bowie along with writing the rating. It was streamed 4 occasions beginning at midday on Dec. 11, with the final coming early on Monday morning in Japan.

First launched to the piano as a toddler, Sakamoto studied ethnomusicology on the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, with explicit curiosity within the conventional music of Japan’s Okinawa prefecture, and Indian and African musical traditions. He additionally described classical musician Claude Debussy as his hero.

He matured right into a keyboard and digital musician and composer who turned identified for movie scores, particularly Nagisa Oshima’s “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” and Bernard Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor,” for which he received an Academy Award.

In 2014 he was recognized with throat most cancers, which was cured after years of therapy. But in January 2021 he mentioned he had been recognized with rectal most cancers the earlier 12 months.

In June 2022, he wrote in an essay that the most cancers had unfold regardless of a number of operations and was now Stage 4.

“I have just turned 70, but how many more times will I be able to see the full moon?” he wrote. “But even thinking that, since I have been granted life, I am praying that I will be able to make music until my last moments, just like my beloved Bach and Debussy.”