Takemitsu: Orchestral Works Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop
Album info
Album-Release:
2006
HRA-Release:
25.11.2014
Label: Naxos
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Artist: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop
Composer: Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- 1Spirit Garden14:42
- 2Solitude Sonore06:32
- 3No. 1. Jose Torres: Music of Training and Rest05:12
- 4No. 2. Black Rain: Funeral Music05:17
- 5No. 3. Face of Another: Waltz02:26
- 6Dreamtime14:35
- 7A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden13:52
Info for Takemitsu: Orchestral Works
Now regarded as one of the most important composers of the second half of the twentieth century, Toru Takemitsu was the first Japanese composer to gain international status. The works on this disc cover Takemitsu’s career from the early Solitude Sonore to Spirit Garden, ‘my experiment with and on-going inquiry into orchestral colour and melody’, composed two years before his death. Inspired by a dream, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden has become one of Takemitsu’s most performed works, notable for the interweaving of silences, passages of randomness, surges of dissonance and delicate fragmentary melodies.
“Takemitsu’s music is essentially sensuous and evocative; one might almost count him a Japanese Debussy.” (The Penguin Guide)
“…A Flock Descends… playing is warmly refined and Alsop's more relaxed tempos allow this dreamlike piece… a little more room to drift in its hallucinatory reverie. The same applies, with perhaps even greater advantage to the music, in Dreamtime…” (BBC Music Magazine)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
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