Top 5 Favorite Takemitsu Works

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What are your 'Top 5 Favorite Works' from Takemitsu? I'll have to think about this one for awhile as I have so many....

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Dream/Window
Twill by Twilight
Spirit Garden
Quotation of Dream
Requiem

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Dream/Window
Twill by Twilight
Spirit Garden
Quotation of Dream
Requiem

That didn't take you long, Nate! Do you know any of the chamber or solo piano/guitar music? This is an area of his oeuvre also worth checking (if you haven't already).

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That didn't take you long, Nate! Do you know any of the chamber or solo piano/guitar music? This is an area of his oeuvre also worth checking (if you haven't already).

I've heard Les Yeux Clos (I and II). Really beautiful works. Never heard any solo guitar music, but that sounds intriguing.

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I've heard Les Yeux Clos (I and II). Really beautiful works. Never heard any solo guitar music, but that sounds intriguing.

Yes, Takemitsu's solo piano music is very good. I have the Crossley recording but I bought Ogawa's recording a few nights ago. Have you heard all of the arrangements of Toward the Sea? The version for alto flute and harp is especially lovely. Rain Spell is another work that haunts me. Check it out. It's written for flute, clarinet, harp, piano, and vibraphone.

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Possibly...

From Me Flows What You Call Time
And Then I Knew Twas Wind
A String Around Autumn
I Hear The Water Dreaming
Nostalghia

no.1 is the definite. positions 2-5 may alter a little if you ask me again tomorrow or next week

Ran should really be in there, but I chose not to include soundtracks.

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Possibly...

From Me Flows What You Call Time
And Then I Knew Twas Wind
A String Around Autumn
I Hear The Water Dreaming
Nostalghia

no.1 is the definite. positions 2-5 may alter a little if you ask me again tomorrow or next week

Ran should really be in there, but I chose not to include soundtracks.

All of these are fantastic works, Simon. Nostalghia is possibly the most underrated from your list. A gorgeous work for violin/orchestra. I probably won't include Ran in my list either since I hardly know any of his film music.

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1) Nostalghia
2) Requiem
3) Rain Coming
4) How slow the wind

Nostalghia for strings was composed in the memory of the film director Andrei Tarkovsky.  I find it is his most accessible work.

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From Me Flows What You Call Time
Vocalism (Lost that CD and wish I could find one!)
Requiem
A Flock Descends ...
Quotation of Dreams

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From Me Flows What You Call Time
Vocalism (Lost that CD and wish I could find one!)
Requiem
A Flock Descends ...
Quotation of Dreams

A very nice list, Paul. I don't think I know Vocalism at all. You're right in trying to track down a CD of it.

This is all I could find via Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PZ8ISA6?keywords=takemitsu%20vocalism&qid=1453649319&ref_=sr_1_1&s=music&sr=1-1

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A very nice list, Paul. I don't think I know Vocalism at all. You're right in trying to track down a CD of it.

This is all I could find via Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PZ8ISA6?keywords=takemitsu%20vocalism&qid=1453649319&ref_=sr_1_1&s=music&sr=1-1

The CD was a JVC release. I don't think you even see JVC releases anymore.

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The CD was a JVC release. I don't think you even see JVC releases anymore.

Ah okay. Yeah, the only JVC recording I own is a Panufnik Gerard Schwarz recording.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000006HN1?keywords=Panufnik%20Schwarz&qid=1453651234&ref_=sr_1_1&s=music&sr=1-1

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- Arc
- Riverrun
- Les Yeux Clos I-II
- Viola Concerto
- Quotation from Dream

Subject to change; I have most of his works, but am only slowly working my way through all that wonderful music ...

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I think I'm ready to make a list right now and this is most definitely subject to change like Turner's great list (in no particular order):

I Hear The Water Dreaming
Viola Concerto "A String Around Autumn"
Visions
Requiem for Strings
Rain Spell

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From me flows what you call time
All in Twilight
In an Autumn Garden
Flock Decends into a Pentagonal Garden
Ring

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There is a downloadable flac of vocalism here

http://avantgardeproject.conus.info/mirror/AGP24/index.htm

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From me flows what you call time
All in Twilight
In an Autumn Garden
Flock Decends into a Pentagonal Garden
Ring

Some interesting choices. I have yet to hear In an Autumn Garden. This is one for gagaku ensemble correct? Ring, if I'm remembering correctly, is a rather Webernesque chamber work (appears on the Ozawa-led 20/21 DG recording). I know the other works quite well.