Toshio Hosokawa

This is the arrangement for viola and piano by Toshio Hosokawa on A String Around Autumn for viola and orchestra by Toru Takemitsu. The first performance was given by Nobuko Imai, viola and Ichiro Nod...

O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß for viola and piano is the arrangement by Toshio Hosokawa on a organ work, O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß (BWV. 622) from Orgelbüchlein by Johann Sebastian Bach....

Toshio Hosokawa erhielt seine Ausbildung in Tokyo und in Deutschland (u. a. bei bei Isang Yun). Bei der Münchener Biennale 1998 wurde seine erste Oper 'Vision of Lear' uraufgeführt und als 'ein Werk,...

The modern playing techniques required by this brilliant piece open up to the performer and the listener a colourful, subtly differentiated tonal world with quickly changing musical incidents. They re...

Hosokawa's compositions include orchestral works, solo concertos, chamber music works, pieces for traditional Japanese instruments and film music.The modern playing techniques required for the perform...

I imagined the oboe to be a primitive instrument with a double reed, wood, and a cylinder. Perhaps music was born through a spell that calls upon the supernatural such as gods and spirits, and the voi...

Der japanische Komponist Toshio Hosokawa ist ein Wanderer zwischen den kulturellen Welten von Ost und West. Eigenen Aussagen zufolge hat er in seiner Heimat ein Gefühl für das Wesen eines einzelnen To...

hommage a Olivier Messiaen

Ein Ton entsteht, wird intensiver und verschwindet, vergleichbar mit dem Rhythmus des Werdens und Vergehens in der Natur, dem Atmen der Lebewesen oder den Meereswellen. Dem japanischen Komponisten Tos...

Bei Toshio Hosokawa ist jeder Ton ein musikalisches Erlebnis. Ihm ist wichtig, sich tief in den Ton hineinzuversenken, 'vertikal' die 'Landschaft' eines bestimmten Klanges in all seinen Farben und Sch...

Hosokawa writes much guitar music in recent years. He said that guitar is one of the most favourite and interested instrument for him. This piece was the obligatory work of the 2nd Guitar Festival hel...

In this work the organ takes the place of the Sho, a Japanese mouth-organ which is part of the Gagaku orchestra. The sounds and chords made by the right and the left hand and by the pedals represent t...

Toshio Hosokawa's works have had a flower as their theme for a long time, and recently the image of a lotus has dominated his composing. Blossoming was inspired by this image. Hosokawa says: 'The lotu...