Toru Takemitsu - Rikyu

From the Album: The Film Music of Toru Takemitsu
Track #01

[@massesesclaves644]

In this piece he quotes the Fantaisies written by Eustache Du Caurroy back in 16th century France, the same era in which Sen no Rikyū lived. Takemitsu was a genius!

[@futonhime]

thank you! searched the piece. i love renaissance and early baroque music but it seems i needed japanese composer's interpretation to feel how deep it really goes. when the shakuhachi starts to play its like if late winter wind touches blood in my veins. dont have words for the rest...

[@deetdeet7]

Toru Takemitsu ... perhaps the greatest composer of the last half of the 20th Century.

[@javiervivanco919]

George Heid que exageración

[@Lyricalguitar]

I think the same

[@guilhermetinoss]

Same

[@smirume9969]

何度聴いても良い曲

[@anomieaith1044]

Rikyu is the most incredible movie I have ever seen! This soundtrack is so spot on an every level it's hard to believe it actually exists. I don't have the words to describe what a miracle this whole project was. Absolute perfection!!!!

[@Quinogm6]

Love the piece

[@bebop689]

For real!

[@lutznetzig2622]

Wunderbar

[@jaclinemoriceau4378]

musique magnifique comme le film pure splendeur visuelle. variations sur la musique de Josquin Desprès La chanson de l'Empereur jacline moriceau

[@keiga4370]

a rare beautiful thing

[@nadastojanovic9585]

Amazing. I love it!

[@rootvalue]

Eagerly waiting for this guy to write a melody with his quadruple SATB phrasing

[@anomieaith1044]

He's been dead for quite some time now.

[@Scriabin_fan]

He’s currently decomposing

[@rootvalue]

@@Scriabin_fan 🙄🤣 You don’t say! 🤣

[@orjangrindborg3867]

This piece is so amazing! The same goes for the movie Rikyu!

[@jnsurg947]

A cup of tea could satisfy the warlords to expose themselves to death in Rikyu's era.Rikyu himself( who was not samurai) committed seppuku(harakiri is a wrong word,which samurai never used) in spite of the persuasion of Hideyoshi Toyotomi not to do it. Still unresolved story.

[@tomstonemale]

Harakiri is not a wrong word, but it's consider a vulgar word to describe a ritual act like seppuku.

[@rezkr5447]

a piece going into very deep unseen aspects of the human soul...and a time and space travel...Does anyone know the precise orchestration of the piece? I' ve been searching but even in the CD info I cannot find and in papers only some of them...can hear most of them...

[@aristopleb]

quite a journey

[@rees4232]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="102">1:42</a> just a personal reference point

[@mouk0u]

anyone knows where to find the score of this piece? it is just too beautifull

[@DerTeemeister]

From the Album: The Film Music of Toru Takemitsu Track #01

[@jiyujizai]

🌿😔🙂💓

[@MarcoInchingolo83]

[@anomieaith1044]

oh.. I thought deetdeet7 might have been one of my comments.

[@bleedinggumsroberts3579]

It sounds so Western in structure and or phrasing. Maybe I don't know what im talking about

[@bleedinggumsroberts3579]

rite maybe slightly influenced if anything. Not what I expected but ive sense listened to it twice so maybe I d k whats up haha

[@OssianHuskinson]

+bleedinggums roberts Yes, it has a very Western influence (one section recalling early Renaissance music). While apparently firmly rooted in Japanese music (the opening organ mimicking the sho, and the koto and percussion of Japanese gagaku can also be heard), the composer has actually stated a strong interest in Western composers, particularly Messiaen and Debussy (some sections are even reminiscent of the 2nd Viennese school of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern). It's an interesting hybrid to be sure!

[@bleedinggumsroberts3579]

ManlyBass94 Thank you for clarification

[@trakur]

@@bleedinggumsroberts3579 @ManlyBass94 I think that this is the same "early Renaissance " melody that can be heard in the Rikyu: kzbin.info/www/bejne/enzQc6CFo7uWbs0 It's on CD "Jordi Savall - Tous Les Matins Du Monde"

[@massesesclaves644]

He quotes whole passages of Du Caurroy's Fantaisies.