Toshio Hosokawa [細川 俊夫]: Circulating Ocean (Märkl, Orchestre National de Lyon)

[@pernordin2641]

I am absolutely gobsmacked by this music! I am also surprised I have not heard of this composer until now at the ripe age of 64.

[@jacquesferland1746]

"My orchestral work Circulating Ocean(2005) is a musical expression of the circulating life: water coming from the ocean, becoming gas, transforming into cloud, rain, storm, falling back to earth, and returning to the ocean. Water is a metaphor of human life; life is born from and returns to the ocean."(Toshio Hosokawa)

[@didierschein8515]

After Debussy (La Mer) and Enescu (Vox Maris), Hosokawa closes a wonderful maritime triptych. Thank you for posting, obrigado.

[@pedrohenriqueprata]

I think it is possible and even probable that the sea inspired many musical pieces in different ways (that of Debussy makes one think of a marine surface in the style of painting of the nineteenth century), that of Hosokawa, in an impersonal cycle of nature in which man seems absent . I should add one more name that comes to mind now (and I am certainly omitting many others of first greatness), which is that of Sibelius, with his Oceanides. Vox Maris I have not had the pleasure of hearing yet.

[@didierschein8515]

Here you are a good version of Vox Maris : kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXu7nHd-qNdljqM It's a wonderful piece, I recomand you. Have a good day.

[@kennethelliott1277]

And of a very recent vintage - John Luther Adams's Pulitzer Prize winning Become Ocean. If indeed our ancient ancestors crawled out of the sea it is no surprise that we still carry a bit of it about with us, after all, both the earth and we are three quarters water

[@jacquesferland1746]

@@kennethelliott1277 Around 150 different orchestral works explicitly associated with the sea. Four times as more if one includes all the orchestral works about maritime landscapes, "the tempest" and ships at sea, sea people such as sailors and pirates, biblical stories and other legends of the sea (including Oceanides!), transoceanic discoveries and other naval prowess, and suites from film scores. It's a fabulous chest of classical music for thematic listening. Hosokawa himself has written nearly a dozen orchestral and operatic works related to the sea!

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

Music in the 20th century moved so far and so fast that it arrived at a place where melody, harmony and meter no longer function in the musical landscape. Ligeti is responsible for much of this practice. This is a brilliantly crafted composition that perfectly matches the visual provided by your host. It is a fascinating sound experience to immediately fades from memory. What we have here is texture and color in a tempestuous seascape that is much like being lost in the vast Pacific Ocean. Reminds me of a bad day on Kon-Tiki.

[@pedrohenriqueprata]

To tell the truth, the image that this sound suggested to me was that of the mysterious and deserted depths of the Arctic Ocean. But maybe I need to hear it again.

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

@@pedrohenriqueprata Was it all that cracking of the ice perhaps?

[@pedrohenriqueprata]

@@stephenjablonsky1941 It is not so much the ice. It is the uninhabited water of life under the ice. What does this suggest of an inhuman thing, of a physical process of which perception is absent.

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

@@pedrohenriqueprata Personally, I prefer hot tub music.

[@casparwintermans9492]

Marvellous! Thank you very much indeed for posting.

[@brearddidier454]

Masterwork! It's a good idea to listen to it just after or just before Claude Debussy's "La Mer".

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

That's a terrible idea. La Mer is one of the greatest orchestral works ever written and very few oceanic works come anywhere near it. I have listened to it more than 500 times and each time the thrill is ecstatic.

[@gerryarty8342]

Excellent THANK YOU.

[@machida5114]

quite good...

[@juliohernandezherrera8888]

thank you

[@ChillinDylan2875]

5:57 6:21

[@taishiohira5877]

how silent and horrible mother sea