Composer: Toru Takemitsu
Performer: Jakob Kellermann, Vivane Hagner, Juliana Koch
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Christian Karlsen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Catalogue: BIS2655
Release: 2023
Size: 996 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Spectral Canticle
02. To The Edge Of Dream for Guitar And Orchestra
03. Vers, L’Arc-en-Ciel, Palma
04. Twill by Twilight
The first Japanese composer to achieve international status, Toru Takemitsu proposed a fusion between Western music and the culture of his country. His music radiates a lyrical intensity that comes as much from his roots in the early modernists Debussy and Alban Berg as from his affinity with the more overtly experimental mid-twentieth-century styles of John Cage and Morton Feldman. Played throughout the world, he is considered one of the most important composers of the second half of the 20th century. Of the four works gathered here, three feature the guitar. Inspired by a poem by Emily Dickinson, Spectral Canticle takes the listener through elusive sonic transformations corresponding to the changing seasons evoked by the poem. To the Edge of Dream has an eerie mood and celebrates the haunting, often sinister paintings of Belgian surrealist painter Paul Delvaux. Also inspired by a work of art, Vers, l’arc-en-ciel, Palma, with it’s refined writing, is close to the spectral composers. Finally, Twill by Twilight for orchestra expresses the moment, just after sunset, when twilight turns into darkness in a delicate and uncluttered pointillism.