Toshio Hosokawa: spartiti difficile

I tre brani contenuti in questa raccolta sono stati scritti per concorsi rinomati: il Concours de harpe Lily Laskine 2008 e il Concorso ARD 2009. Ma non è l'aspetto tecnico ad essere in primo piano. I...

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...

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...

Hosokawa composed this ten-minute, one-movement piece for the chamber music festival in Kuhmo (Finland). The players need to be familiar with modern playing techniques. If this requirement of modern p...

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 '...

Il compositore giapponese Toshio Hosokawa è un girovago tra i mondi culturali dell'Oriente e dell'Occidente. Secondo le sue stesse dichiarazioni, nel suo Paese ha sviluppato un sentimento per la natur...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Sopran und Gitarre

The title Herbst-Lied is a word I feel in the tone colour of the clarinet. While it is possible that I associate this word with the music of Mozart and Brahms and their immortal clarinet quintets, it...