TAKEMITSU: Orchestral Works

Featuring

Marin Alsop
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Tōru Takemitsu

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Takemitsu often used the metaphor of walking through a Japanese formal garden to describe the experience of listening to his music, with its changing vistas and perspectives.

Performer Biography

Marin Alsop, the Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra on this recording, studied at Yale and the Juilliard School, and won the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at Tanglewood, where she studied with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa.

Compositional Technique

Takemitsu's orchestral scores are known for their refined, sensuous, and harmonically rich colors, often featuring deliberate pauses for silence to create a contemplative, dream-like atmosphere.

Composer Biography

Toru Takemitsu was the first Japanese composer to achieve international recognition, blending Western music with Japanese philosophies and culture.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Takemitsu's inspiration came from diverse sources, including Australian aboriginal myths, film images, James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, and the natural world, especially water.