Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jun Markl – Toshio Hosokawa: Woven Dreams, Blossoming II & Circulating Ocean (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit/96kHz | Time – 00:51:01 minutes | 831 MB | Genre: Classical
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Toshio Hosokawa is one of Japan’s most eminent living composers. The first volume in this series devoted to his orchestral works [8.573239] explores the idea of the blossoming lotus – “music as plant-like development and growth” – and continues here with Blossoming II for chamber orchestra. Woven Dreams traces the journey from womb to birth by employing techniques drawn from Gagaku, the ancient Japanese court music. Of Circulating Ocean the composer writes: “I am attempting to express in sound the flow and change of water… The ocean is for me the birthplace of life, a being possessed of infinite depth and expanse.”
Tracklist:
1. Woven Dreams
2. Blossoming II
3. Introduction
4. Silent Ocean
5. Waves from the Ocean
6. Cloudscape in the Sky
7. Storm
8. Waves
9. Breeze on the Ocean
10. The Water Returning to the Sky Again
11. Mist on the Ocean
Personnel:
Royal Scottish National Orchestra (on tracks 1-2)
Orchestre National de Lyon (on tracks 3-11)
Jun Märkl, conductor
Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, from 10th to 12th June, 2013 (tracks 1-2), and at the Auditorium de Lyon, France, on 15th July, 2007 (tracks 3-11)
Engineered by Phil Rowlands (tracks 1-2) and Tim Handley (tracks 3-11)
Produced by Tim Handley
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