CD, Hosokawa (composer)
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New. con slancio
Heinz Holliger (oboe, englishhorn, speaker), Marie-Lise Schüpbach (englishhorn, oboe)
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Toshio Hosokawa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Stefan Dohr (horn), Momo Kodama (piano), Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jun Markl
They're beautifully crafted and carefully paced, full of shifting, slipping textures...Crucially, though, both works lack fibre...What is impressive, though, is the quality of the performances... —
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Toshio Hosokawa: Works For Flute
Yoshie Ueno (performer), Mayumi Miyata (performer), Ken'ichi Nakagawa (performer)
If 40 minutes of extended technique on various flutes is your bag, this release does it well. The segues between extended and traditional techniques could occasionally be cleaner, but Ueno brings... —
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Toshio Hosokawa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 - Futari Shizuka – the Maiden From the Sea; Ceremony
Ilse Eerens (soprano), Ryoko Aoki (noh singer), Mario Caroli (piccolo, flutes), Residentie Orkest the Hague, Jun Märkl
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Hosokawa: Awakening
Jacob Kellermann, Ilse Eerens (soprano), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Christian Karlsen
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Forget other recordings of Debussy's Etudes. Not that this is better than Gieseking, Pollini, Uchida, Bavouzet and the rest - it's merely that such comparisons are redundant...Kodama brings... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Special offer. Otaka: Fantasy for Organ & Orchestra, etc.
Bryan Ashley (organ)
Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka