Toru Takemitsu
Corona - For Away - Piano Distance - Undisturbed Rest
LabelEXPLORE RECORDSGenreContemporary Composition
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Performed by Roger Woodward (piano). Recorded Decca Studio No.3, West Hampstead, London, 4 May 1973. This is the first International CD release featuring this recording. Was first released on Decca's HEAD label in 1974. For Takemitsu, sound can be beautiful without being significant, can signify beauty without making 'sense'. The quality of the music is thus elusive: it is not something one must necessarily 'understand', but perhaps rather absorb and accept. His works have, all the same, qualities in common: gentle, careful organisation; a sense of simple wonder and freshness; above all, an awareness of the silence that is the accompaniment of sound. To make the void of silence live to make live the infinity of sounds. Sound and silence are equal.
Details
Cat. number: EXP0016
Year: 2006
Release notes
From the liner-notes: "Woodward has combined the sound of three keyboard instruments, piano,harpsichord and organ, by means of over-dubbing techniques, and has borrowed pitch-material from other Takemitsu works." Total timing 41:26.
Tracklist
| 1 | Corona (London Version) | 22:34 | |
| 2 | For Away | 7:15 | |
| 3 | Piano Distance | 4:31 | |
| Undisturbed Rest | |||
| 4 | I. Slowly Sadly As If To Converse | 2:24 | |
| 5 | II. Quietly And With Cruel Reverberation | 2:40 | |
| 6 | III. A Song Of Love | 1:49 | |
Credits
- Toru Takemitsu
- Composed By
- Roger Woodward
- Harpsichord, Organ (1), Piano
