Toru TakemitsuFeaturing: Roger Woodward
Complete Piano Works (CD)
FormatCDLabelEtceteraGenreExperimental
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Toru Takemitsu's piano music spans almost forty years, from the Uninterrupted Rests begun in 1952 on texts by the surrealist poet Shūzō Takiguchi to Les yeux clos II of 1989. In between come the austere Piano Distance (1961), For Away (1973), the Rain Tree Sketch (1982) and Litany, his 1989 reconstruction from memory of the lost Lento in Due Movimenti (1950). It is music of resonance and suspension, Debussy and Messiaen seen through a Japanese sense of time.
The pianist Roger Woodward, a friend and close collaborator of the composer, recorded it all in Sydney in September 1990, with the graphic scores Corona and Crossing combined in a live concert performance. Released by Etcetera, with notes by Richard Toop in English and Japanese.
Release notes
Complete Piano Works (1952-1990): Rain Tree Sketch (1982) Les Yeux Clos I (1979) Les Yeux Clos II (1989) For Away (1973) Litany (1950-1989) Piano Distance (1961) Uninterrupted Rests (1952-59) Corona (1962) Crossing (1962) Released in standard jewel case with 16-page booklet in Japanese and English. Recorded: 1-6: ABC Studio 210, Sydney, 24 September 1990. 7 : Concert performance, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 September 1990. Total Timing 78:05
| 1 | Rain Tree Sketch | 5:58 | |
| Les Yeux Clos | |||
| 2a | Les Yeux Clos I | 6:05 | |
| 2b | Les Yeux Clos II | 9:59 | |
| 3 | For Away | 7:43 | |
| Litany | |||
| 4a | Part I | 6:05 | |
| 4b | Part II | 5:44 | |
| 5 | Piano Distance | 5:20 | |
| Uninterrupted Rests "3 Poems On A Text By Takiguchi Shuzo" | |||
| 6a | Slowly, Sadly And As If To Converse With | 2:02 | |
| 6b | Quietly And With A Cruel Reverberation | 2:58 | |
| 6c | A Song Of Love | 1:45 | |
| 7 | Corona & Crossing (2 Works Combined In A Live Performance) | 22:25 | |
- Allan Maclean
- Engineer (1-6)
- Yossi Gabbay
- Engineer (7)
- Richard Toop
- Liner Notes
- George Georgakakos
- Photography By [Roger Woodward]
- Malcolm Crowthers
- Photography By [Toru Takemitsu]
- Roger Woodward
- Piano
- Ralph Lane
- Producer
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Recorded By [Sound Recording]
