“Composing is giving meaning to that stream of sounds that penetrate the world we live in” , in short the credo of Toru Takemitsu. Toru Takemitsu (19301996) is one of Japan’s foremost 20th century composers, an innovator combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy to create a sound uniquely his own, fusing opposites together such as sound with silence, the east with the west.

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Although the composer once admitted that he took the title for Rain Tree Sketch from a can of shaving foam, the piece and several others in this invaluable collection share a watery theme which links them back to the music of Debussy as well as the more obvious influence of Messiaen. This collection of Takemitsu’s piano music is filled with a quizzical air and often touches of oblique humour, as though someone is smiling, somewhere. With warm, softly resounding chords and pitterpattering melodic motifs above, Takemitsu’s piano so often evokes rain gently falling on earth and leaves. There are bright, brisk flashes of light as well as a pervasive undertone of melancholy, which in a work such as Les Yeux Clos can be accounted for by the work’s nature as a memorial to a friend.

Born in 1987, the Belgian pianist Lukas Huisman has made a speciality of new music, studying with the likes of Ian Pace and Geoffrey Douglas Madge. Through these and other teachers he has immersed himself in the complex worlds of Brian Ferneyhough and Kaiksohru Sorabji, among others, requiring a phenomenal technique as well as an appetite for the unfamiliar and challenging.

Composer: Tōru Takemitsu
Artist: Lukas Huisman (piano)

Tracklist:

00:00:00 Rain Tree Sketch II
00:03:24 Les yeux clos II
00:11:35 Rain Tree Sketch
00:16:03 Les yeux clos

Piano Pieces for Children:
00:22:28 I. Breeze
00:23:13 II. Clouds

00:24:37 For Away
00:30:42 Piano Distance

Uninterrupted Rests:
00:35:41 I. Slowly, Sadly and as if to Converse with
00:37:31 II. Quietly and with a Cruel Reverberation
00:40:48 III. A Song of Love

Litany:
00:42:00 I. Adagio
00:46:24 II. Lento misterioso

00:51:48 Romance
00:56:05 De Brauwer: Something, Something. ’n’ Rain ’n’ Such

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