Toru Takemitsu "Rain Spell" 武満徹

Toru Takemitsu "Rain Spell"
Toronto New Music Ensemble
Robert Aitken - Flute
Joaquin Valdepenas - Clarinet
David Swan - Piano

Toru Takemitsu biography

(born Oct. 8, 1930, Tokyo, Japan — died Feb. 20, 1996, Tokyo) Japanese composer. In 1951 he founded Tokyo's Experimental Laboratory to promote an integration of Japanese music with contemporary European developments. Soon acknowledged as Japan's leading composer, he explored avant-garde techniques such as serialism, aleatory music, graphic notation, and electronic music, combining them with traditional Japanese motives and instruments (e.g., November Steps, 1967, for biwa, shakuhachi, and orchestra). He created an individual sound world in which silence itself is an important element.

武満徹

1930年、東京に生まれる。おもに独学で作曲を学んだ。
作品は、コンサート・ピースから電子音楽、映画音楽、舞台音楽、ポップ・ソングまで多岐にわたる。「タケミツ・トーン」と呼ばれた独特の響きは、世界中の演奏家、音楽ファ­ンを魅了した。
また1973年から1992年までおこなわれた「Music Today」の音楽監督や、1986年に始まった「サントリーホール国際作曲委嘱シリーズ」を監修するなど、常に同時代の音楽に高い関心をもち、多くの優れた作曲家を日本­に紹介した。
名エッセイストとしても知られ、『音、沈黙と測りあえるほどに』などの他多数の著書がある。
1996年、65歳で死去。

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[MrKonstantin06]

It's very interesting to get to know and to listen to the new type of music.

Your video,dear Satoko.is rather proper for it.

My respect.

[bonosbones]

I just love this music combined with your video it is very soothing!!

Thank you for the upload.

[ceb2633]

Mesmerizing images and amazing music. This is a dream combination, soothing, suprising, floating...the lovely calm. You do wonderful things, Sakoto. Please do more.

xxClaudia

[POPKON14]

とても美しい映像と幻想的な音楽がぴったりですばらしいです。ヒ­ーリングにもぴったりですね。

ありがとうございます！

[2255zara]

All is fantastic - music and images and effects ! Very Modern and very Japanese ! Thank you very much , dear Satoko ! Kisses and Best wishes ! :)

[Kievest]

Deeply absorbing, mesmerizing video, Satoko! You are evolving in new directions

and it is quite exciting to experience!!! Fascinating and exquisite visual interpretation

of the music in all its simplicity, beauty and transient sensibility. Enjoyed the

choreography of the rain drop, the ripples in the water, its shining translucent

presence on a bright green leaf, the clarity and spare orchestration of the

score...so modern and yet so ageless! Thank you for sharing this grand

experiment!

[77Opera]

Superbe vidéo! Merci à vour Satoko!

[ANGEL36743]

Maravilhoso fluir de sons e silêncios, que se propagam em ondas ! Como se tudo emergisse de um centro.Grazie!

[heliclops]

Hello, friend! very good your video parabens beautiful, beautiful music fantastic thanks. Big hug and stay here in BRAZIL with God.

 Att .. Youth.

[sfkcbf]

This composition has much to recommend it. The mood that it creates captured my full attention.