Toru Takemitsu Archipelago S. Ensemble intercontemporain Matthias Pintscher, direction Enregistré en direct le 01.12.2017 à la Cité de la musique 2017 Heliox Films - Ensemble intercontemporain
Cette musique est d'une finesse, on sent bien l'influence de Debussy et de Messiaen, c'est d'une richesse harmonique incroyable, comme toujours avec Takemitsu, merci pour cette belle découverte :)
So beautiful. The music itself, the performance... I listen to something by the Ensemble every day, they do not fail to breathe the spirit of joy into my listening life. Takemitsu, a giant, one of my true heroes. To the Ensemble Intercontemporaine: Thank you all for this wonderful interpretation !
you're welcome. I'm doing my thesis on modes of analysis of Takemitsu's late works. Apart from a couple of misscoutings here and there (like the harp near the beginning) it's very precise and extremely sensitive to the needs of the work. BTW I love Nicolas Crosse's playing! You're luck to have him.
Or one could say that the middle period is pretty derivative of standard modernist practices of the European avant-garde of 40s-60s. Serialism, aleatoricism, use of clusters and extended techniques, all Takemitsu developed when coming to contact with his western peers. The work from late 70s onward synthesizes these tendencies with his zen and Japanese aesthetic influences to arrive at something that is actually quite unique. Not in a sort of maximalist-complexity sense, that you are probably looking for, but in an aesthetic sense and in a sense of having his own idiomatic style in a distilled fashion. And no, there are quite marked differences between Messiaen (a constructivist) and Takemitsu (who rejected artifice and construction in his musical language).
