Japanese Classics
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Takemitsu's work in the final decade of his life was gentle, full of tenderness, sentiment and sighs. But he never entirely discarded the starker beauty of his earlier work. Air distills much... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2003, Editor's Choice
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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... — More…
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…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... — More…
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Exquisite static lines overlay terrifying, tectonic bass drum thwacks in Meditation — to the Victims of Tsunami 3.11, while in Nach dem Sturm two sopranos sing a Hesse poem depicting storm-battered... — More…
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Toshio Hosokawa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl
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Few composers so skilfully weave silence into the fabric of sound; in this way he could be compared to Mompou or Chopin...Guitarist Shin-ichi Fukuda’s playing is as impeccable and impressive... — More…
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Akutagawa: Ellora Symphony, Trinita Sinfonica & Rapsodia per orchestra
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa
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Under Takuo Yuasa, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra manage a delicate balance of surface and form, gracefully revealing how Mayuzumi borrowed from Western models only what he needed to best... — More…
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