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In an Autumn Garden / Voyage for 3 Biwas / Autumn (Excerpts) / etc Kinshi Tsuruta, Biwa Katsuya Yokoyama, Shakuhachi Music Department, Imperial Hou [ DG 20/21 Series / CD - released 23/Jun/2002 ] newly remastered for this reissue. |
Patrick Gallois (Fl)/ Fabrice Pierre (Harp)/Goran Sollscher (Gu)/BBC Symphony
Takemitsu - I hear the water dreaming [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 15/Apr/2000 ] The magic flute gives this disc a special dream quality! |
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Orchestral Works Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Alsop Marin [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] Largely self taught, Takemitsu's starting points were Debussy, Stravinsky, Berg and Messiaen; he was also influenced by the post-World War II avant-garde such as Boulez, and by his friends John Cage and Morton Feldman. |
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How slow the wind: Orchestra Music Christian Lindberg (trombone) / Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo conducted by Tadaaki Otaka [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] "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 of the recently-deceased Japanese master, the repertoire was chosen by conductor Tadaaki Otaka and... |
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Complete Music for Solo Guitar Franz Halasz (guitar) [ BIS / CD - released 15/Dec/2000 ] Takemitsu wrote even more pieces for the guitar than Villa-Lobos |
NISHIMURA / MIYOSHI / TAKEMITSU / MATSUSHITA / MIKI
Japanese Music for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble Kroumata Percussion Ensemble / Keiko Abe [ BIS / CD - released 1/Nov/1989 ] Marimbist Keiko Abe and Swedish percussion ensemble Kroumata collaborate in several exciting Japanese works for marimba and percussion. The Kroumata ensemble includes Ingvar Hallgren, Jan Hellgren, Anders Holdar, Leif Karlsson, Anders Loguin, and... |
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Dreamtime / Orion and Pleiades / Star-Isle / A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden Paul Watkins (cello) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Tadaaki Otaka [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jul/1996 ] Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was a Japanese composer, who explored the compositional principles of Western classical music and his native Japanese tradition both in isolation and in combination. Takemitsu was largely self-taught in music. He was... |