Description
Toru Takemitsu — Quatrain and A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden
Avantgarde Vinyl Series No. 3 on 180-gram vinyl
Mixed & lacquers cut from the original analog 1" 8-track master tapes by Rainer Maillard and Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios
Limited and numbered edition with original artwork
Plus a newly-designed, beautifully crafted collector's sleeve with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey
Album No. 3 in the brand new vinyl series from Deutsche Grammophon featuring pioneering recordings from the musical avant-garde.
Toru Takemitsu's Quatrain and A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden exemplify his synthesis of Western avant-garde techniques and Japanese aesthetics. In "Quatrain," scored for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and orchestra, Takemitsu evokes the Japanese concept of ma-the space between things-through fluid shifts of timbre and atmosphere. He likened the work to an emaki, a picture scroll unfolding scene by scene, where each musical idea is independent yet interwoven.
"A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden," inspired by a dream, expands these ideas into a circular, non-linear sound world. Its "flock" motif, first heard in the oboe, descends into a shimmering harmonic field created by the strings-the "garden." Here, Takemitsu's sense of time and space becomes immersive and cyclical rather than progressive.
Mixed & lacquers cut from the original analog 1" 8-track master tapes by Rainer Maillard and Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios.
Limited and numbered edition, featuring original artwork and a newly designed, beautifully crafted collector's sleeve with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey, and pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
