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...
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...
The music releases pieces of vivid sound one after another into the performance space. It is a baby's march - right foot, left foot, step by step. Innocent, audaciously powerful and immature, the todd...
Der Film 'Hannyo' basiert auf drei Kurzgeschichten von Shofu Muramatsu; der Titelsong wurde im Film von Peggy Hayama interpretiert. 'Mienai Kodomo' wurde im Film 'Kanojo to kare' von der Sängerin Yoko...
Das Lied 'Maru to Sankaku no Uta' entstand 1961 als Komposition für Sologesang und Klavier; die Chorversion datiert aus dem Jahr 1984.
Commissioned by The Little Singers of Tokyo, this piece is dedicated to the Singers and their Director, Saeko Hasegawa. It was composed as a requiem for Toro Takemitsu. The first performance was given...
The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 8)
Der spanische Text zum Titelsong des Film Subarashii Akujo (A Marvelous Kid) stammt von dem japanischen Musikkritiker Fumio Nagata, einem Spezialisten für lateinamerikanische Musik, für den Schauspiel...
Toshi Hosokawa's Etude I-VI for piano includes all six of Hosokawa's etudes composed between 2011 and 2013.Hosokawa wxplains, Piano is an instrument that was born from European Music, and it is an ext...
Four Imaginary Landscapes from Bashô for violin and piano was commissioned by Concert Hall Shizuoka. This work consists of four pieces which can be performed independently. Three pieces: 2. Spring (Pe...
The long-awaited arrangement by Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was published by Schott Music Tokyo to commemorate the anniversary of his death, 2016.The universally known song Golden Slumbers, written by...
This one-minute piece is thoroughly traditional in its notation and easy to play. Harmonies based around fourths and baroque-style rhythms are its most obvious characteristics, with a harmonically sur...
Atsuhiko Gondai has researched musical space as a rite grounded in Catholic religious belief. wood still says nothing named by the passage from the poem written by Kim Chi-ha (Korean Christian poet).
The required modern playing techniques of these two extremely virtuoso pieces make a colourful, differentiated tonal world with quickly changing musical incidents accessible to both the performer and...
Die Komponistin und Interpretin Keiko Abe hört zur Marimba wie Isaac Stern zur Violine oder Pablo Casals zum Cello. Sie nahm mehr als 20 Schallplatten auf und ist die erste Frau, die es in die Hall Of...
Furyo Shonen basiert auf den Lebenserinnerungen eines jugendlichen Straftäters; um den dokumentarischen Charakter seines Films zu wahren, arbeitete Susumo Hani fast ausschliesslich mit Laiendarsteller...
Floral Fairy was commissioned for Counter Phrases by Ictus. Counter Phrases is a film-concert with new compositions by 10 composers including Hosokawa based on filmed dances choreographed by Anne Tere...
In recent years, Gondai has collaborated with Buddhist priests and Shomyo chanters and broken new ground through interchange with Buddhist music. This piece was inspired from Tibetan Buddhism and is c...
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,...
Cosmos Haptic IV for violoncello and piano was commissioned by Suntory Hall for the recital of Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi on October 31, 1997 at Suntory Hall.
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...
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...
Toru Takemitsu hatte sich für die Musik zu 'Meguirai' ausdrücklich die Mitwirkung des Pop-Sängers und Songwriters Ichiro Araki als Texter und Ausführenden gewünscht. Der Band enthält 30 doppelseitige...
Ouvertüre C-Dur (Orchestersuite Nr. 1) BWV 1066 for mixed Chorus arranged by Masato Suzuki was released by Schott Music Tokyo.Masato Suzuki, a Keyboard Player (harpsichor, organ, piano) and a conducte...
3 Tasten-Schlaginstrumente (Spieler 1: Marimbaphon, Vibraphon und antike Zimbeln; Spieler 2: Marimbaphon; Spieler 3: Marimbaphon und antike Zimbeln)
hommage a Olivier Messiaen
Toshi Ichiyanagi was born in Ashiya-Shi (Japan) in 1933; he studied with K. Hirao and T. Ikenouchi and lived in the USA from 1952-61, where John Cage and Aaron Copland influenced his work. He began by...
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...
Toshio Hosokawa studied in Tokyo and in Germany (with Isang Yun, among others). His first opera 'Vision of Lear' had its first performance at the 1998 Munich Festival, where it was highly praised as '...
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...
Schott Japan
Mit dem Walzer aus den Three Fim Scores' für Streicher hat der japanische Komponist Toru Takemitsu einen ungewöhnlichen Walzer geschrieben. Schwungvoll aber trotzdem melancholisch, heiter aber mit tra...
The three pieces contained in this collection were written for renowned competitions: the Concours de harpe Lily Laskine 2008 and the ARD Competition 2009. But it is not the technical aspect that is t...
Dieses Werk wurde für ein Marimbaphon mit einem Tonumfang von fünf Oktaven geschrieben, kann jedoch auch auf Instrumenten mit einem geringeren Tonumfang ausgeführt werden.