Takemitsu - Complete Works for Piano
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10147
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 22nd June 2018
Contents
Works
'n' Rain 'n' SuchSomething, Something
For Away
Les Yeux clos II
Les Yeux clos
Litany
Piano Distance
Piano Pieces for Children
Rain Tree Sketch II
Rain Tree Sketch
Romance
Uninterrupted rests
Artists
Lukas Huisman (piano)About
With warm, softly resounding chords and pitter-pattering melodic motifs above, Takemitsu’s piano so often evokes rain gently falling on earth and leaves. There are bright, brisk flashes of light as well as a pervasive undertone of melancholy, which in a work such as Les Yeux Clos can be accounted for by the work’s nature as a memorial to a friend.
The poetic title of For Away is matched by the distant reverie of its notes: ‘my expression of extolment,’ according to the composer, ‘and an offering to the Galaxy of Life – a galaxy that is not the sole domain of mankind.’ This is among the most harmonically spare and experimental works on the album, whereas Litany (written in memory of Michael Vyner, the founder of the London Sinfonietta) draws inspiration from Eastern modes as well as their reinterpretation at the hands of Debussy and Messiaen. Perhaps the boldest piece Takemitsu wrote for piano is Piano Distance, which is notated without a clear metre in the hyper-distilled style of Webern.
Born in 1987, the Belgian pianist Lukas Huisman has made a speciality of new music, studying with the likes of Ian Pace and Geoffrey Douglas Madge. Through these and other teachers he has immersed himself in the complex worlds of Brian Ferneyhough and Kaiksohru Sorabji, among others, requiring a phenomenal technique as well as an appetite for the unfamiliar and challenging.
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