Browse by Artist: HOSOKAWA, TOSHIO

Artist:	HOSOKAWA, TOSHIO
Title:	Koto-uta, Voyage I, Saxophone Concerto, Ferne-Landschraft II
Label:	KAIROS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	KAI 1217

"A merging of Japanese and western styles and instruments in a contemporary setting...the noise-like in Hosokawa's music is not intended to alienate or 'denature' conventionally produced (normally played) sounds, instead it is the expression of euphony combined with sounds of nature. This mirrors a specific system of Japanese aesthetics, which Hosokawa admired also in the work of Tôru Takemitsu and he steadfastly realised time and again in his own works."

Artist:	HOSOKAWA, TOSHIO
Title:	Deep Silence
Label:	WERGO (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WER 6801

"'Music,' says Toshio Hosokawa, 'is the place where notes and silence meet.' This identifies his aesthetic concept as a genuinely Japanese one. It is found both in Japanese landscape painting and is the music, such as the courtly gagaku, in which audible sound always stands in relation to nonsound, i.e. to silence. In their rhythmic proportions Hosokawa's compositions are oriented around the breathing methods of Zen meditation, with their very slow breathing in and very slow breathing out: 'Each breath contains life and death, death and life.' Mayumi Miyata (sho -- the instrument of the universe or of tradition) and Stefan Hussong (accordion - the human or contemporary instrument) are among the most important interpreters of Hosokawa's music which here is framed by four traditional gagaku pieces."

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