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Takemitsu: Orchestral Works
Release Date: March 17, 1998 SK63044 CD Album Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was a composer whose music became most closely associated with post-WWII Japanese cinema -- he worked extensively with Kurosawa, Teshigahara, Oshima, Kobayashi and others. His orchestral music reflects a distinctly Japanese sensibility influenced by Ravel, Debussy and and Messiaen, and a concern more with timbre and elegant sound than with pattern and structure. This recording of three of his orchestral works spans four decades of his career, as Carl St.Clair and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra wield their virtuoso talents to represent the sparse, dramatic music of Takemitsu. The album includes a performance of Takemitsu's piece for percussion ensemble and orchestra, "From me flows what you call Time", performed by Nexus, the group for which it was originally commissioned. The eclectic, global repertoire of Nexus is beautifully captured in Takemitsu's composition, which was in fact dedicated to them at its original presentation. Overall, this album constitutes the perfect record of the elegance of Takemitsu's unusual sounds. |
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Track listing for CD Album 1 From me flows what you call Time (Instrumental) ra wma20 wma32 wma128 2 Twill by Twilight (In Memory of Morton Feldman) for orchestra ra wma20 wma32 wma128 3 Requiem (for String Orchestra) (Instrumental) ra wma20 wma32 wma128 |
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