HITEN-SEIDO Ⅲ by Maki Ishii

HITEN-SEIDO III
op. 75 (1987) op. 75 (1987)
The same thoughts which animated the composition of HITEN-SEI-DO II also form the basis for the contents of this work. However, whereas HITEN-SEIDO II draws its inspiration from the elegant and vivid images of Heaven depicted on the frescoes in the caves of Tun Huang (China), which stem from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), it is the floating images of Heaven depicted on frescoes dated from a much earlier period which provide the motives generating HITEN-SEI-DO III. During this earlier period, these depictions were not yet amplified through the use of contours.
These heavenly images thus retain a primordial strength, vitality and radiance, which this music trys to recreate.
English by Sidney Corbett