From Me Flows What You Call Time / Twill by Twilight
Takemitsu (1930-96) is Japan's greatest composer. He had a diverse musical career, which included work for films. His music partakes of aspects of postmodernism--serial construction, atonal modalities, unusual instrumentation--and all of it hypnotic. The works on this disc are for a chamber-size orchestra and are illuminated by the smaller forces.From Me Flows What You Call Time(1990) brings to mind a set of delicate, atonal wind chimes.Twill by Twilight--In Memory of Morton Feldman(1988) reflects Feldman's juxtapositions and separations, but with a bit more color.Requiem(1957), Takemitsu's first orchestral work, is stunning and very beautiful.--Paul Cook