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This disc makes an ideal introduction to Toru Takemitsu’s very beautiful and personal sound world. It’s particularly nice to have the three-movement suite of film
British violist Lawrence Power opens this recital disc with the first sonata by Nikolai Roslavets (1926), a performance that more than equals Yuri Bashmet’s 1993
The poetic title of this CD conceals an attractive anthology of 20th century piano music, continuously balanced between East and West and cleverly presented by
It is rare to find a disc as creatively programmed as this BIS release. Enhanced by lovely performances, played with great devotion to the memory
This is a fascinating program in which violinist Anne Akiko Meyers–herself Japanese-American–creates a dynamic dialogue between East and West. Bringing together works by Somei Satoh,
The late Toru Takemitsu’s small but substantial legacy of solo piano works builds upon the gestural sound worlds of Debussy and Messiaen yet resonates with
Toru Takemitsu never could get his mind around fast music; just about everything he writes is a slow wash of sound with plenty of tidal
Toru Takemitsu’s music–and particularly the compositions for flute–strikes beautiful balances. The first balance is between worlds, East and West. French impressionism (particularly Debussy) made as
When writing for guitar Toru Takemitsu managed to make his free-floating runs, prismatic chord clusters, and sparsely populated textures fit snugly and naturally within the
Takemitsu was in the process of writing a flute concerto for Patrick Gallois when he died in 1996 at the comparatively young age of 65.
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