Schott Japan

This one-minute piece is thoroughly traditional in its notation and easy to play. Harmonies based around fourths and baroque-style rhythms are its most obvious characteristics, with a harmonically sur...

Atsuhiko Gondai has researched musical space as a rite grounded in Catholic religious belief. wood still says nothing named by the passage from the poem written by Kim Chi-ha (Korean Christian poet).

The required modern playing techniques of these two extremely virtuoso pieces make a colourful, differentiated tonal world with quickly changing musical incidents accessible to both the performer and...

Dieses Werk wurde für ein Marimbaphon mit einem Tonumfang von fünf Oktaven geschrieben, kann jedoch auch auf Instrumenten mit einem geringeren Tonumfang ausgeführt werden.

Furyo Shonen basiert auf den Lebenserinnerungen eines jugendlichen Straftäters; um den dokumentarischen Charakter seines Films zu wahren, arbeitete Susumo Hani fast ausschliesslich mit Laiendarsteller...

This is the arrangement for viola and piano by Toshio Hosokawa on A String Around Autumn for viola and orchestra by Toru Takemitsu. The first performance was given by Nobuko Imai, viola and Ichiro Nod...

O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß for viola and piano is the arrangement by Toshio Hosokawa on a organ work, O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß (BWV. 622) from Orgelbüchlein by Johann Sebastian Bach....

Toshio Hosokawa erhielt seine Ausbildung in Tokyo und in Deutschland (u. a. bei bei Isang Yun). Bei der Münchener Biennale 1998 wurde seine erste Oper 'Vision of Lear' uraufgeführt und als 'ein Werk,...

The modern playing techniques required by this brilliant piece open up to the performer and the listener a colourful, subtly differentiated tonal world with quickly changing musical incidents. They re...

Hosokawa's compositions include orchestral works, solo concertos, chamber music works, pieces for traditional Japanese instruments and film music.The modern playing techniques required for the perform...

I imagined the oboe to be a primitive instrument with a double reed, wood, and a cylinder. Perhaps music was born through a spell that calls upon the supernatural such as gods and spirits, and the voi...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 8)