A String Around Autumn

Since Takemitsu's evolution into selfconfessed Romantic, virtually every major label has released something by him, so Otaka has stiff competition, notably Patrick Gallois's fine reading of Water... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 11th Nov 2002
Catalogue No: BISCD1300
Label: BIS
Length: 59 minutes

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Takemitsu: A String Around Autumn

Work length17:52

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Philip Dukes (viola)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka

Takemitsu: I Hear the Water Dreaming

Work length13:11

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Sharon Bezaly (flute)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka

Takemitsu: A Way a Lone II

Work length14:24

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka

Takemitsu: riverrun

Work length14:19

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Noriko Ogawa (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tadaaki Otaka

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Since Takemitsu's evolution into selfconfessed Romantic, virtually every major label has released something by him, so Otaka has stiff competition, notably Patrick Gallois's fine reading of Water Dreaming.
A Way A Lone II is included on Rudolf Werthen's admirable survey of Takemitsu's film and concert music. Aided effectively by the soloists, Otaka's interpretations compare well.
In riverrun Takemitsu approached closer to the conventional soloist-ensemble than usual.
Noriko Ogawa, who has recorded the complete piano solos for BIS, judges the balance sensitively, preparing the ground for that moment when the orchestra leaves the piano to decorate the silence with a few farewell notes.
riverrun and A Way A Lone draw inspiration from Finnegans Wake. Leif Hasselgren notes a parallel between the circular structure of Joyce's novel and the way Takemitsu's music seems to 'start from nowhere and disappear into the same nowhere'. For all his acknowledged debt to French Impressionism, and to Japanese traditions, his early interest in electronic music – where sounds appear and fade like headlights on the horizon or plants flowering in a time-lapse film – has undoubtedly had a strong influence.
Sharon Bezaly's flute playing intensifies the feeling that Water Dreaming is a perfect crash-course in later Takemitsu, full of references to his influences yet identifiable at any moment as pure, individual and personal Takemitsu, and always bewitching.

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