Schott Japan

3 Tasten-Schlaginstrumente (Spieler 1: Marimbaphon, Vibraphon und antike Zimbeln; Spieler 2: Marimbaphon; Spieler 3: Marimbaphon und antike Zimbeln)

Toshi Ichiyanagi was born in Ashiya-Shi (Japan) in 1933; he studied with K. Hirao and T. Ikenouchi and lived in the USA from 1952-61, where John Cage and Aaron Copland influenced his work. He began by...

Hosokawa composed this ten-minute, one-movement piece for the chamber music festival in Kuhmo (Finland). The players need to be familiar with modern playing techniques. If this requirement of modern p...

Toshio Hosokawa studied in Tokyo and in Germany (with Isang Yun, among others). His first opera 'Vision of Lear' had its first performance at the 1998 Munich Festival, where it was highly praised as '...

The music releases pieces of vivid sound one after another into the performance space. It is a baby's march - right foot, left foot, step by step. Innocent, audaciously powerful and immature, the todd...

Schott Japan

Mit dem Walzer aus den Three Fim Scores' für Streicher hat der japanische Komponist Toru Takemitsu einen ungewöhnlichen Walzer geschrieben. Schwungvoll aber trotzdem melancholisch, heiter aber mit tra...

Commissioned by The Little Singers of Tokyo, this piece is dedicated to the Singers and their Director, Saeko Hasegawa. It was composed as a requiem for Toro Takemitsu. The first performance was given...

Toshi Hosokawa's Etude I-VI for piano includes all six of Hosokawa's etudes composed between 2011 and 2013.Hosokawa wxplains, Piano is an instrument that was born from European Music, and it is an ext...

Four Imaginary Landscapes from Bashô for violin and piano was commissioned by Concert Hall Shizuoka. This work consists of four pieces which can be performed independently. Three pieces: 2. Spring (Pe...