Hosokawa
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The individual variations, specially commissioned from contemporary composers and played here en suite, share an aroma of freshness due to their unfamiliarity. They also elicit from Buchbinder... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Toshio Hosokawa
Kyoko Kawamura (voice), Asako Urushihara (violin), Johannes Ernst (saxophone)
musikFabrik, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
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Forget other recordings of Debussy's Etudes. Not that this is better than Gieseking, Pollini, Uchida, Bavouzet and the rest - it's merely that such comparisons are redundant...Kodama brings... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Mozart, Hosokawa
Momo Kodama (piano), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (cadenzor), Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Kodama is a subtle and poetic soloist in both works, in control of a particularly beautiful range of quiet sonorities in the Hosokawa and matching that, in the Mozart, with ‘pouring-oil’ passagework... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Otaka: Fantasy for Organ & Orchestra, etc.
Bryan Ashley (organ)
Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka
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Toshio Hosokawa: Quintets & Solos
Mayumi Miyata (sho), Naoko Yoshino (harp) & Tosiya Suzuki (recorder)
Arditti Quartet
Sho virtuoso Mayumi Mayata…bends the reedy yet ethereal sonorities of that venerable Japanese mouth organ with the tact and precision of the Arditti Quartet. —
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Toshio Hosokawa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
Jeroen Berwaerts (soloist), Paul Huang (soloist), Residentie Orkest The Hague, Jun Märkl
in all the recordings even the most dense textures are delineated with admirable clarity, and the two principal soloists excel...I sense that Uzu is the work most likely to appeal to listeners... —
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Toshio Hosokawa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Stefan Dohr (horn), Momo Kodama (piano), Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jun Markl
They're beautifully crafted and carefully paced, full of shifting, slipping textures...Crucially, though, both works lack fibre...What is impressive, though, is the quality of the performances... —
