Hosokawa: The Raven

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Much of the text is delivered as melodrama over suitably doomy, atmospheric textures from the 12-piece ensemble...Hellekant delivers it all superbly, though; without a performer of her dramatic... — The Guardian, 25th May 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th Apr 2017
Catalogue No: 8573724
Label: Naxos
Series: Japanese Classics
Length: 60 minutes

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The Raven

Work length14:50

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Charlotte Hellekant

Hosokawa: The Raven

Work length45:57

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Charlotte Hellekant
United Instruments of Lucilin
Kentaro Kawase

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Toshio Hosokawa, Japan’s pre-eminent living composer, creates his distinctive musical language from the fascinating relationship between western avant-garde art and traditional Japanese culture. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s 1845 poem, Hosokawa frames his monodrama The Raven as a Japanese Noh play, with its interaction between the human protagonist and an otherworldly animal. Vividly exploring ideas of madness, The Raven conjures up a shadowy and unfamiliar world.

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25th May 2017

Much of the text is delivered as melodrama over suitably doomy, atmospheric textures from the 12-piece ensemble...Hellekant delivers it all superbly, though; without a performer of her dramatic presence, it wouldn’t be half as convincing as it is.

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