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tokyo to kyoto  -  japanese new music

Works by Toshio Hosokawa, Jo Kondo, Maki Ishii, Yori-Aki Matsudaira and Toru Takemitsu

The focus is on new music from Japan, which translates the tension between ultra-modernity and Zen tradition, between change at top speed and lingering in the perpetual now, into exciting sounds.

 Iris Lichtinger -  soprano  & recorders | Marlis Neumann - harp | Takeo Sato - guitar

Program

Toshio Hosokawa (*1955) & Yuquijiro Yocoh (*1925)    Sakura - Variations

Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)    Equinox (1995)

Ken Niikura (*1951)  from: Gitanjali I  (1986) „If thou speakest not…“

Jo Kondo (*1947)  Standing (1973)

Yori-Aki Matsudaira (*1931)  Interchanging (1988)

Maki Ishii (1936-2003)  A Gleam of Time op. 53 (1983)

Toshio Hosokawa (*1955)  aus: Renka I  (1986) “Kimi ga yuku”  “Yura no to o”