Toshio Hosokawa: Woven Dreams, Blossoming II & Circulating Ocean

Featuring

Jun Märkl
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Orchestre National de Lyon
Toshio Hosokawa

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Toshio Hosokawa's work Circulating Ocean attempts to express the flow and change of water in sound, viewing the ocean as the birthplace of life and a metaphor for the human life cycle.

Performer Biography

Jun Märkl, the conductor, was honored by the French Ministry of Culture with the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2012 for his tenure in Lyon and his Debussy cycle.

Composer Biography

Toshio Hosokawa, born in 1955, is recognized as one of Japan's most eminent living composers.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Composer Toshio Hosokawa perceives music as a plant-like development and growth, aiming for a different viewpoint than European composers who construct music architecturally.

Compositional Technique

In Woven Dreams, Hosokawa uses a technique called Oibuki, from Japanese court music (Gagaku), where a simple melody is played like a canon with multiple instrumental parts.