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.