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Hosokawa: Awakening

Composer Toshio Hosokawa
Performer Ilse Eerens
Jacob Kellermann
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Christian Karlsen, conductor
Catalogue Number BIS-2745 SACD
EAN 7318599927459
Format SACD Hybrid

This hybrid disc plays on both CD and SACD players
SACD Surround - SACD Stereo - CD Stereo

Release date Sep 2024
Total time 83'32

This recording presents the entire output to date for guitar of Toshio Hosokawa, one of Japan’s most prolific composers for the instrument. His affinity for the guitar stems from his familiarity with popular songs accompanied by the guitar and from his knowledge of the koto, a traditional Japanese instrument from which he has adopted certain playing techniques.

Although the works gathered here call for a variety of forces – guitar solo, guitar and voice, guitar and instrumental ensemble – they all present a fundamental aspect of Toshio Hosokawa’s output: the music seems to be born like a calligraphic line ‘at the limit of time and space’. Here, the guitar is no longer just an instrument familiar to both classical and popular music: in Hosokawa’s works it is a medium that transmits the primordial motion of the soul, which has woven poems and songs since ancient times.

Familiar with Hosokawa’s world, guitarist Jacob Kellermann, together with Christian Karlsen (with whom he has already recorded works by Tōru Takemitsu on BIS-2655), the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and soprano Ilse Eerens, presents a soundscape on the edge of dreams, both seductive and subtle, modern and timeless.
 
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  Toshio Hosokawa
01 Two Japanese Folk Songs: No. 1 Kuroda-bushi 7'11
 
02 Two Japanese Folk Songs: No. 2 Itsuki no Komoriuta 5'21
 
  Serenade 12'13
03 I. In the Moonlight 7'52
04 II. Dream Path 4'21
 
  Renka I 11'32
05 I. Aki no Ta no... 3'41
06 II. Kimi ga yuku... 3'56
07 III. Yura no To wo... 3'55
 
08 Voyage IX 'Awakening' 15'19
 
  12 Japanese Songs 31'56
09 No. 1 Sakura 5'47
10 No. 2 Haru no Ogawa 3'26
11 No. 3 Tooryan-se 1'37
12 No. 4 Kokyo 2'12
13 No. 5 Yamadera no Oshousan 1'07
14 No. 6 Aka-Tombo 2'25
15 No. 7 Kojo no Tsuki 2'50
16 No. 8 Yuyake-koyake 2'08
17 No. 9 Yuki no furu Machi wo 2'55
18 No. 10 Oshougatsu 2'14
19 No. 11 Kaasan no Uta 2'28
20 No. 12 Edo no Komoriuta 2'47
 
  Album total 83'32
ComposerHosokawa, Toshio

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