Toru Takemitsu, Archipelago S. - 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 :)

[@markchiana6906]

What a great Ensemble! What a chance to have the Intercontemporain in this world as it is an ensemble coming from another world!

[@davephillips1263]

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 !

[@MiloDC]

This is ridiculously well played. Easily in the top three renditions of this piece that I've heard. Bravissimo!

[@frankfeldman6657]

Takemitsu had the best ear of any post 1950 composer. Pilloried for writing gorgeous music, naturally-by those who couldn't.

[@johngriffith3506]

Absolutely brilliant--so many colors!

[@jonasstary5895]

Brilliant interpretation! The best I've ever heard. So sensitive... Thank you!

[@ensembleinter]

Thanks!

[@mark-j-adderley]

East meets West. Elegant and exquisitely well mannered.

[@benschweitzer6307]

Gorgeous. Thank you for posting.

[@ornleifs]

Sublime Music.

[@ferguscurrie5937]

A truly excellent performance!

[@ensembleinter]

Thanks !

[@ferguscurrie5937]

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.

[@PianistlavFastlovsky]

8:00 Horn player keeps checking the trumpet score, " ok, ooook, you better, 'cause you always change notes"

[@franckmousset4022]

Magnifique !

[@jorgegarzaelli6238]

naturallment!!!

[@latiaos11]

Beautiful, I feel like directing something so nebulous as this would be very hard.

[@jean-claudecontassot7155]

Tout simplement en un mot : splendide !

[@jorgegarzaelli6238]

dac!!!

[@FedericoBellini]

Takemitsu in un'esecuzione fantasmagorica...!

[@jorgegarzaelli6238]

EL PIANO TOCA UNAS CUARTAS TIPICAS DE DEBUSSY. QUE HERMOSAS ARMONIAS!!1 DESDE ARGENTINA

[@mark-j-adderley]

... and so what if the music reminds us of Debussy and Ravel ? What is wrong with variations in a new dialect on Debussy and Ravel ?

[@giovannismartini479]

10:26

[@peterhelton7395]

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[@SantiagoQuinto]

Messiaen y Debussy hacen un viaje al Oriente. Y se olvidan demasiadas cosas allí!

[@earlrobicheaux2632]

Influenced by Debussy and inventively orchestrated and composed by Takemitsu.

[@Uhor]

Should have played earlier Takemitsu like Arc, Asterism, Coral island etc, the late stuff is too weak/derivative of Messiaen

[@ShoyuTao]

Yeah, what a hack!

[@marvinkmooneyoz]

if you are going to be derivative of anyone, though

[@karljooseppihel9636]

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).