Toru Takemitsu: Klavierwerke on CD
Klavierwerke
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
Romance; Lento in due movimenti; Pause ininterrompue Nr. 1-3; Piano Distance; For Away; Les yeux clos I & II; Rain Tree Sketch I & II; Piano Pieces for Children; Litany
- Artists:
- Kotaro Fukuma, Klavier
- Label:
- Naxos
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2006
- Item number:
- 9829329
- UPC/EAN:
- 0747313026173
- Release date:
- 3.9.2007
- Series:
- Naxos Japanese Classics
Now regarded as one of the most important composers of the second half of the twentieth century, Toru Takemitsu was the first Japanese composer to gain international status. This selection of his piano music, extending over 43 years, offers an inclusive overview of his stylistic development from Romance (1949), the nineteen-year-old composer's earliest surviving piano work, to the hypnotic Rain Tree Sketch II (1992), Takemitsu's last work for solo piano. The music ranges widely in style from Pause ininterrompue (Uninterrupted rest) (1952-59), which shows the influence of Debussy, Scriabin and Messiaen, and the aleatoric Piano Distance (1961), to the nocturnal and meditative For Away (1973) inspired by Indonesian gamelan music.
Reviews
FonoForum 02/08: "Dass Fukuma seine künstlerischen Weihen in Paris empfing, kann da nur von Vorteil sein. Er gewährt dieser melancholisch gefärbten Musik den Hauch von Dekadenz, der sie umweht."Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Romance
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2 Lento in due movimenti: I. Adagio
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3 Lento in due movimenti: II. Lento misteriosamente
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4 Pause ininterrompue (Uninterrupted Rests): I. Slowly, sadly and as if to converse with
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5 Pause ininterrompue (Uninterrupted Rests): II. Quietly and with a cruel reverberation
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6 Pause ininterrompue (Uninterrupted Rests): III. A song of love
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7 Piano Distance
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8 For away
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9 Les yeux clos
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10 Les yeux clos II
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11 Ame no ki (Rain Tree Sketch): Rain Tree Sketch
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12 Ame no ki sobyo II (Rain Tree Sketch II), "In memoriam Olivier Messian": Rain Tree Sketch II
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13 Piano Pieces for Children: No. 1. Breeze
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14 Piano Pieces for Children: No. 2. Clouds
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15 Litany: I. Adagio
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16 Litany: II. Lento misterioso
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