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Takemitsu: A String Around Autumn / Dukes, Bezaly, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2002-11-01

Works: Toru Takemitsu: A String around Autumn, for viola & orchestra; I Hear the Water Dreaming; A Way a Lone II, for string orchestra; riverrun, for piano & orchestra
Performers: Bezaly, Sharon; Dukes, Philip; Ogawa, Noriko
Conductors: Otaka, Tadaaki
Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

"Toru Takemitsu was one of the few composers who bridged with great success the very different worlds of Western and traditional Japanese music. A distinguished...continue...

How Slow the Wind - Takemitsu / Lindberg, Otaka, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2001-03-02

Works: Toru Takemitsu: Rain Coming; Archipelago S. for 21 Players; Requiem for Strings; Antiphonal Fanfares "How Slow the Wind"; Tree Line; Fantasma/Cantos II
Performers: Lindberg, Christian
Conductors: Otaka, Tadaaki
Ensemble: Kioi Sinfonietta Tokyo

Takemitsu: Complete Music for Solo Guitar / Franz Halász

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2000-10-17

Works: Toru Takemitsu: All in Twilight, pieces (4) for guitar; Songs (12) for Guitar; Equinox, for guitar; Folios, for guitar; In the Woods, pieces (3) for guitar; Work(s)
Performers: Halasz, Franz

This is a surprising album. Guitar music occupies an important place in Takemitsu's oeuvre. He played the instrument himself, and worked with some of the...continue...

The Sea in Spring - Japanese Music for Flute & Guitar

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1999-04-02

Works: Michio Miyagi: Haru no umi; Teruyuki Noda: Kokiriko Variations on a Japanese Folk-Tune, for flute & guitar; Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea; Air for solo flute; Katsutoshi Nagasawa: Hoshun, for koto &...
Performers: Gauk, Rachel [Guitar]; Hoeppner, Susan

The Japanese Cello / Torleif Thedéen, Noriko Ogawa

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1998-12-20

Works: Yoshihiro Kanno: A Cluster of Stars II, for cello & piano; Hirohisa Shono: Z-Paraphrase, for cello & piano; Toru Takemitsu: Orion, for cello & piano
Performers: Ogawa, Noriko; Thedeen, Torleif

"The music is beautifully played. The prevailing tone of cosmic abstraction more or less precludes any sense of ethnic identity, with the possible exception of...continue...

Takemitsu: Chamber Music / Ensemble Kaï

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1998-11-27

Works: Toru Takemitsu: Between Tides; Landscape I; Distance de fée; Rocking Mirror Daybreak; Hika; A Way a Lone
Conductors:
Ensemble: Ensemble Kaï

Takemitsu is increasingly recongnized as one of the significant musical voices of the latter decades of this century. Following their well received discs of orchestral...continue...

The Japanese Saxophone / Claude Delangle

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1998-06-05

Works: Masakazu Natsuda: West or Evening Song in Autumn, for soprano saxophone & percussion; Ishiro Nodaira: Arabesque 3, for alto saxophone & piano; Fuminori Tanada: Mysterious Morning III for soprano saxo...
Performers: Delangle, Claude; Delangle, Odile; Geoffroy, Jean

A Bird Came Down the Walk / Nobuko Imai, Roland Pöntinen

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1997-06-20

Works: George Enescu: Concert Piece for Viola and Piano; Jean Sibelius: Rondo, for viola & piano in D minor, JS 162; Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae for Viola and Piano, Op. 48; Elegy for Viola solo; Toru Takem...
Performers: Imai, Nobuko; Pontinen, Roland

Takemitsu: Complete Solo Piano Music / Noriko Ogawa

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1996-10-09

Works: Toru Takemitsu: Litany; Uninterrupted Rest; Piano Distance; For Away; Les yeux clos; Les yeux clos II; Rain Tree Sketch; Rain Tree Sketch II
Performers: Ogawa, Noriko

Takemitsu: A Flock Descends, etc / Otaka, Watkins, BBC Wales

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1996-06-30

Works: Toru Takemitsu: A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden, for orchestra; Dreamtime; Star Isle, for orchestra; Orion & Pleiades, for cello & orchestra
Performers: Watkins, Paul [Cello, Conductor]
Conductors: Otaka, Tadaaki
Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Poésie - Yukie Nagai plays Japanese Piano Music

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1996-05-09

Works: Yuji Takahashi: Kwanju, May 1980; Toshi Ichiyanagi: Cloud Atlas for piano; Akira Miyoshi: A Diary of the Sea; Akio Yashiro: Sonata for piano; Toru Takemitsu: Rain-Tree Sketch, for piano; For Away, fo...
Performers: Nagai, Yukie

Toward the Sea - Music for Flute and Harp / Aitken, Goodman

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1995-12-06

Works: Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea; Désiré Inghelbrecht: Sonatine for Flute and Harp; Jean-Michel Damase: Sonata for Flute and Harp; Joseph Lauber: Medieval Dancess (4) for Flute and Harp, ...
Performers: Aitken, Robert; Goodman, Erica

The Solitary Saxophone / Claude Delangle

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1994-07-01

Works: Karlheinz Stockhausen: In Freundschaft; Luciano Berio: Sequenza VII for Oboe solo; Sequenza IXb for Alto Saxophone solo; Giacinto Scelsi: Maknongan; Ixor; Pezzi (3) for Soprano Saxophone; Betsy Jolas...
Performers: Delangle, Claude

Kroumata and Keiko Abe

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1900-01-11

Works: Akira Nishimura: Kala, for marimba & 6 percussionists; Akira Miyoshi: Rin-Sai, for marimba & 6 percussionists; Toru Takemitsu: Rain-Tree, for 3 percussionists; Isao Matsushita: Airscope II, for marim...
Performers: Abe, Keiko; Kroumata Percussion Ensemble
Conductors:
Ensemble: Kroumata Percussion Ensemble

Personnel: Keiko Abe (marimba)....continue...