The Tokyo Gakuso Orchestra
Tōru Takemitsu was a Modern Japanese composer of avant-garde music. In An Autumn Garden draws from Western styles much of the time, but Takemitsu still maintains a fairly consistent style of traditional Japanese music. There are many different influences to classical music present in this album, such as jazz, the avant-garde, and even some Impressionist harmonies similar to those of Debussy and others. In the end, this is a really beautiful, cererbral album of magnificent Japanese classical music, and and I suck at writing these things!
interesting!
ReplyDeletehave you listened to japanese art songs? there's a countertenor named Yoshikazu Mera who sings some of them http://www.bis.se/naxos.php?aID=BIS-CD-889
i wish i could download that album, but it's nowhere else. i haaaaaate when that happens.
same thing with the art songs by kaikhosru sorabji... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-_Phj49ps