Mayumi Miyata, Munchener Kammerorchester, Alexander Liebreich - Toshio Hosokawa: Landscapes (2011)
Toshio Hosokawa - Landscapes (2011)
Mayumi Miyata (shô); Münchener Kammerorchester, conducted by Alexander Liebreich
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 237 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 156 Mb | Scans included
Contemporary Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 2095, 476 3938 | 00:55:52
Mayumi Miyata (shô); Münchener Kammerorchester, conducted by Alexander Liebreich
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 237 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 156 Mb | Scans included
Contemporary Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 2095, 476 3938 | 00:55:52
ECM’s ongoing series of recordings with the Munich Chamber Orchestra continues with an intriguing album of new and recent pieces by Japan’s leading composer Toshio Hosokawa. Amongst the compositions are Sakura für Otto Tomek and Cloud and Light, both written in 2008, and Ceremonial Dance (2000). These 21st century pieces are brought together with Landscape V (originally from 1993 and for string quartet, meanwhile expanded into an orchestral version). Three of these feature the shô, a traditional Japanese instrument played by its leading exponent, Mayumi Miyata.
Born in Hiroshima in 1955, Hosokawa was initially inspired by Western art music from Schubert to Schoenberg. He went to Germany in the 1970s to study with Isang Yun and Klaus Huber. As he strengthened his standing in European avant-garde he also put down deeper roots in Japanese traditional music. His work increasingly suggests a dialogue between East and West, between the archaic and modern, between ceremonial music and concert music. Hosokawa considers his compositional process instinctively associated with the concepts of Zen Buddhism and its symbolic interpretation of nature.
Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa, born in 1955, received most of his training in the West, studying with Isang Yun and Klaus Huber in Germany and at the Darmstadt Institute, and he brings a Japanese aesthetic sensibility to the techniques of modernism. Most of the music on this album is notable for its somber, atmospheric tone, a prevailing sense of virtual stasis, and its delicate, finely calibrated scoring. Three of the four pieces feature the shô, a wind instrument with multiple pipes that sounds like a miniature breath-powered organ, and that Hosokawa uses primarily to produce long-sustained, subtly shifting chords. Landscape V is scored for shô and strings. The shô's timbre blends so well with that of the strings that's its presence is sometimes almost imperceptible. The program notes describe the musical relationship of the soloists and the orchestra in these pieces with the analogy of "a still lake mirroring the sky," a visual image that beautifully suggests the aural experience. For the most part the piece conveys an ominous stillness occasionally ruffled by a flurry of skittering activity. The music has a sound closely related to spectralism of Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey, but Hosokawa derives his harmonic language in this piece not from spectrum analysis but the harmonic characteristics of the shô itself, in which microtones are common. Cloud and Light, written in much the same idiom, uses the shô and full orchestra, and demonstrates Hosokawa's mastery of exquisitely colorful but understated instrumentation; it's an especially beguiling piece. Sakura für Otto Tomek is scored for the shô alone and offers a chance to clearly hear its distinctive qualities. Mayumi Miyata is the expert soloist and Alexander Liebreich leads Münchener Kammerorchester in poised, persuasive readings of the scores. The sound quality of the ECM album, produced by Manfred Eicher, could hardly be bettered.Review by Stephen Eddins, Allmusic.com
Mayumi Miyata, Munchener Kammerorchester, Alexander Liebreich - Toshio Hosokawa: Landscapes (2011)
Recorded October 2009
Himmelfahrtskirche, München
Tracklist:
01. Landscape V (1993) for sho and string orchestra (15:37)
02. Ceremonial Dance (2000) for string orchestra (12:02)
03. Sakura fur Otto Tomek for sho solo (6:49)
04. Cloud and Light for sho and orchestra (21:24)
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Mayumi Miyata, Munchener Kammerorchester, Alexander Liebreich - Toshio Hosokawa: Landscapes (2011)
