Toru Takemitsu - Spectral Canticle; To the Edge of a Dream

Tōru TAKEMITSU (1930-1996)

Spectral Canticle for guitar, violin and orchestra (1995)

To the Edge of Dream for guitar and orchestra (1983)

Vers, l’arc-en-ciel, Palma for oboe d’amore, guitar and orchestra (1984)

Twill by Twilight (1988)

Jacob Kellerman (guitar)

Viviane Hagner (violin) 

Juliana Koch (oboe d’amore)

BBC Philharmonic

Christian Karlsen

rec. 2022, Philharmonic Studio, Media City UK, Salford, UK

Tan Dun - Pipa Concerto; Takemitsu - Nostalghia; Hayashi - Concerto-elegia

TAN DUN (b. 1957)

Concerto for String Orchestra and Pipa (1999)*

Toru TAKEMITSU (1930-1996)

Nostalghia for solo violin and strong** orchestra (1987)

 "in memoriam Andrey Tarkovsky"

Three Film Scores for Strings***

Hikaru  HAYASHI (1931-2012)

Concerto-elegia for viola and strings (1995)***8

Moscow Soloists

Yuri Bashmet (violin & conductor)

Roman Balashov (conductor)** ***

Wu Man (pipa)

*World Premier recording

Toru Takemitsu - Piano Music

Toru TAKEMITSU (1930-1996)

Piano Music

Ame no ki sobyo II (Rain Tree Sketch II), 'In memoriam Olivier Messiaen'

For Away

Lento in due movimenti (1950)

Les Yeux Clos

Les yeux clos I & II

Litany

Pause ininterrompue

Piano Distance

Rain Tree Sketch I & II

Romance

Two Piano Pieces for Children (Breeze & Clouds)

Genres

Kotaro Fukuma (piano)

Recorded at Glenn Gould Studio, CBC, Toronto, Canada, 

from 26th to 28th July, 2006.

Toru Takemitsu - A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden; Quatrain

Toru  TAKEMITSU (1930-1996)

A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden

Quatrain

Ring

Sacrifice

Stanza I

Valeria

Hiroshi Wakasugi

Boston Symphony Orchestra & Tashi

Seiji Ozawa

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"Quatrain" composed 1975, recorded March 1977 at the Boston Symphony Hall.

"A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden" composed 1977, recorded December 1978 at the Boston Symphony Hall.

"Stanza" composed 1969.

"Sacrifice" composed 1962.

"Ring" composed 1961.

"Valeria" composed 1965/69.

Chamber works recorded September 1969 at the Polydor Studio No. 2, Tokyo.

Tōru Takemitsu - Complete Works & Transcriptions for Solo Guitar

Tōru TAKEMITSU (1930-1996) 

Complete Works & Transcriptions for Solo Guitar

A piece for guitar, 'For the 60th birthday of Sylvano Bussotti'

All in Twilight, four pieces for guitar

Folios, for guitar

Equinox, for guitar

In the Woods - Three pieces for guitar

12 Songs arranged for guitar

Barry Mason: The Last Waltz (Arr. T. Takemitsu for Guitar)

Flavio Nati (guitar)

Digital recording, Chiesa di San Biagio in Caticciano - Città della Pieve (PG), Italy

Dates of recording: 16/17/18 July 2020

Japanese Piano Works (Takemitsu; Ikebe; Moroi and Fujiie)

Japanese Piano Works

KEIKO FUJIIE (*1963)
Suite: On the waters’ edge

TORU TAKEMITSU (1930-1996)
Rain Tree Sketch

SHINICHIRO IKEBE (*1943)
La Terre est bleue comme une Orange

SABURO MOROI (1903-1977)
Klaviersonate Nr. 2
I. Adagio energico – Allegro, ma non troppo
II. Scherzo – Presto appassionato
III. Andante sostenuto

Gerhard Opitz, piano

Toru Takemitsu - Cantos: Fantasma-Cantos; Water Ways; Waves; Quatrain II

Toru TAKEMITSU (1930-1996)

CANTOS 

Fantasma/Cantos / Water-Ways / Waves / Quatrain II

Richard Stoltzman (Clarinet) 

Ida Kavafian (Violin)

Peter Serkin (Piano)

Fred Sherry (Cello) 

BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra

Tadaaki Otaka

Toru Takemitsu - Chamber Music

Toru TAKEMITSU ( 1930-1996)

Chamber Music

And Then I Knew ’twas Wind, for Flute, Viola and Harp.

Rain Tree, for Three Percussion Players.

Toward the Sea, for Alto Flute and Guitar.

Bryce, for Flute, Two Harps, Marimba and Percussion.

Itinerant, for Solo Flute.

Voice, for Solo Flute.

Air, for solo Flute.

Rain Spell, for Flute, Clarinet, Harp, Piano and Vibraphone.

 Toronto New Music Ensemble

Robert Aitken (Flute)

Recorded at the Toronto Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Canada and St. John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket,Canada, June and August 2002