Toshio Hosokawa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

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They're beautifully crafted and carefully paced, full of shifting, slipping textures...Crucially, though, both works lack fibre...What is impressive, though, is the quality of the performances... — The Guardian, 25th April 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Mar 2014
Catalogue No: 8573239
Label: Naxos
Series: Japanese Classics
Length: 59 minutes

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Hosokawa: Horn Concerto 'Moment of Blossoming'

Work length19:35

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Stefan Dohr
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Jun Märkl

Hosokawa: Lotus under the moonlight

Work length20:48

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Momo Kodama
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Jun Märkl

Hosokawa: Chant

Work length18:55

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Anssi Karttunen
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Jun Märkl

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Recorded in the Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, 10-11 June 2013.

Japanese musicians have often taken the connection between man and nature as their theme and award-winning composer Toshio Hosokawa stands strongly in that artistic lineage. His Horn Concerto ‘Moment of Blossoming’ imagines the solo instrument as a lotus flower and the orchestra as the cosmos. The theme of the blossoming lotus continues in the piano concerto Lotus under the moonlight and in the songful Chant for cello and orchestra, influenced by Shômyô singing (the ceremonial music of Japanese Buddhism). The Horn Concerto was co-commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and London’s Barbican Centre.

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25th April 2014

They're beautifully crafted and carefully paced, full of shifting, slipping textures...Crucially, though, both works lack fibre...What is impressive, though, is the quality of the performances under Jun Märkl.

Toshio Hosokawa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

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