Takemitsu - Spectral Canticle | BIS BIS2655

Takemitsu - Spectral Canticle

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2655

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd June 2023

Contents

Artists

Jacob Kellermann (guitar)
Viviane Hagner (violin)
Juliana Koch (oboe d’amore)
BBC Philharmonic

Conductor

Christian Karlsen

Works

Takemitsu, Toru

Spectral Canticle
To the Edge of Dream
Twill by Twilight
Vers, l'arc-en-ciel, Palma

Artists

Jacob Kellermann (guitar)
Viviane Hagner (violin)
Juliana Koch (oboe d’amore)
BBC Philharmonic

Conductor

Christian Karlsen

About

The first Japanese composer to achieve international status, Tōru 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 its 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.

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