Takemitsu: Spectral Canticle

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Jakob Kellermann’s playing matches the refinement of Takemitsu’s textures, opened out for the listener by immaculate engineering, which scores over a live experience with the balance problems... — Gramophone Magazine, Septeber 2023 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jun 2023
Catalogue No: BIS2655
Label: BIS
Length: 53 minutes

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Takemitsu: Spectral Canticle

Work length16:18

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Jakob Kellermann (guitar), Vivane Hagner (violin), Jacob Kellermann (soloist), Viviane Hagner (soloist)
BBC Philharmonic
Christian Karlsen

Takemitsu: To The Edge Of Dream for Guitar And Orchestra

Work length11:21

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Jakob Kellermann (guitar), Jacob Kellermann (soloist)
BBC Philharmonic
Christian Karlsen

Takemitsu: Vers, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Palma

Work length12:32

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Jakob Kellermann (guitar), Juliana Koch (soloist), Jacob Kellermann (soloist)
BBC Philharmonic
Christian Karlsen

Takemitsu: Twill by Twilight

Work length13:41

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BBC Philharmonic
Christian Karlsen

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The first Japanese composer to achieve international status, Toru Takemitsu proposed a fusion between Western music and the culture of his country. His music radiates a lyrical intensity that comes as much from his roots in the early modernists Debussy and Alban Berg as from his affinity with the more overtly experimental mid-twentieth-century styles of John Cage and Morton Feldman. Played throughout the world, he is considered one of the most important composers of the second half of the 20th century. Of the four works gathered here, three feature the guitar. Inspired by a poem by Emily Dickinson, Spectral Canticle takes the listener through elusive sonic transformations corresponding to the changing seasons evoked by the poem. To the Edge of Dream has an eerie mood and celebrates the haunting, often sinister paintings of Belgian surrealist painter Paul Delvaux. Also inspired by a work of art, Vers, l'arc-en-ciel, Palma, with it's refined writing, is close to the spectral composers. Finally, Twill by Twilight for orchestra expresses the moment, just after sunset, when twilight turns into darkness in a delicate and uncluttered pointillism.

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Septeber 2023

Jakob Kellermann’s playing matches the refinement of Takemitsu’s textures, opened out for the listener by immaculate engineering, which scores over a live experience with the balance problems attendant on guitar concertos in general.

3rd September 2023

Exceptional accounts here of four of the Japanese composer’s works, with soloists and orchestra alive to the extraordinary coexistence of stillness and threat in Takemitsu’s writing.

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