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Shizuka Kuretani - Four Seasons Works by Takeo Hoshiya - Japan CD
Shizuka Kuretani - Four Seasons Works by Takeo Hoshiya - Japan CD
CD
Classical Music
Chamber Music
March 20, 2019
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Catalog No.: FOCD-2584
JAN/ISBN: 4988065025847
Number of Discs: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan
Credits:
Shizuka Kuretani
Description:
The CD series "Contemporary Japanese Composers" has been issued since the first half of the 1992 fiscal year, with the aim of documenting the fruits of creative work systematically and continuously. Volume 54 is devoted to Takeo Hoshiya, a composer of action who formed ensembles with musicians of his own generation while still a student and who, alongside his own composing, continues to introduce a wide range of works from Japan and abroad.
Takeo Hoshiya is the founder of Ensemble Bois, a group whose players - among them Junichiro Taku and Tomoki Tai - are central figures in the Japanese contemporary music scene, and he has sustained a distinguished body of activity together with Masamichi Kinoshita, Toshiya Watanabe and Takashi Tokunaga. While holding that "music is one means of expressing something that cannot be explained in words", Hoshiya insists on the need to look closely, since "in practice it contains both what is (relatively) easy to explain and what is hard to explain". This is evidence of a long-standing concern with the nature of communication in music, developed through intensive collaboration with performers. That collaboration runs so deep that the cellist Tomoki Tai built his own microtonal positive organ in order to perform Hoshiya's music, and the composer's search has led him to devise a new form of precise notation that is neither traditional staff notation nor graphic score. The works recorded here show the results in full.
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