武満徹/ Toru Takemitsu - 樹の曲 / Music of Trees (1961) cond: 渡邉暁雄 / Akeo Watanabe 日本フィルハーモニー交響楽団 / The Japan Philharmonic Orchestra

I wish to search out that single sound which is in itself so strong that it can confront silence. It is then that my personal insignificance will cease to trouble me.

Tōru Takemitsu, “A Single Sound,” from Confronting Silence

In Japanese we have the word ikeru, a colloquial form of iku. It has two meanings. One is "to place flowers in a vase to revive them." The other is "to bury a corpse." Isn't there something basic in this word? Isn't this combination of life and death a measure of the world? To Christ, who was executed on the hill of Golgotha, his death was a human experience. That is why there was a Resurrection. Was that a miracle? If so, the world is full of miracles.  Bashō wrote, As you look around There is nothing Which is not a flower.

Toru Takemitsu, Confronting Silence

音楽の手触りを取り戻す

　「賢すぎる。もっとバカになって！」。リハーサルで、若い奏者に発破をかけ続ける現場に立ち会ったことがある。賢い人は、我を忘れて夢中になる姿をさらすことを恥ずかしがる。分別のつかぬ子供こそ、小澤さんにとっての最上の師だった。

　「バカ」の対極であるアカデミズムからは距離を置いた。独学で作曲家になった武満徹さんの、最良の理解者となった。１９６７年、邦楽器が独奏を担う武満さんの「ノヴェンバー・ステップス」を世界に放った。内なる衝動が波紋となり、墨がにじんだような茫漠とした輪郭が生まれてゆく。初演地のニューヨークでの熱狂は、音楽の手触りをシステムから人間の手へと取り戻す道を、２人の若き異邦人によって示された衝撃に対する反動だったのかもしれない。

2024/03/30　朝日新聞夕刊（編集委員・吉田純子）

惜別

指揮者　小澤 征爾さん

「もっとバカに」 熱狂を世界へ

Seiji Ozawa

Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) - Nostalghia for Violin and Orchestra: In Memory of Andrei Tarkovski (1987) - Composed for Yehudi Menuhin

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

Seiji Ozawa, conductor Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

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Sunday listening. Seriously one of my favs.

And then I knew itwas wind (1992) by Toru Takemitsu for harp, viola and flute.

Toru Takemitsu - Subete wa usuakari no naka de (All in Twilight) : I. —

Shin-ichi Fukuda, guitar.

"(…)the mysterious exchange of feelings that Rilke felt in the swaying trees when he wrote, “I am becoming a tree, or, is the tree becoming me?"

“In all beings there exists a single universal space that Rilke called the Weltinnerraum [inner world space]. (Perhaps it is not only trees that make us aware of that inner space.)”

Toru Takemitsu, from Redon Fantasy - A Lone Tree in the Wasteland and People and Trees in "Confronting Silence - Selected Writings" (transl. and ed. by Yoshiko Kakudo and Glenn Glasow), Fallen Leaf Press, Berkeley, California, 1995

Toru Takemitsu

- Music for "The Petrified Forest"

1973

武満 徹 / Toru Takemitsu - 3人の打楽器奏者のための 雨の樹 / Rain Tree for 3 percussion players 東京藝術大学 定期 室内楽 第44回 / Tokyo University of the Arts

Toru Takemitsu - Water Music (1960)

beautiful one I didn’t know before

もっと大切なこと

（前略）作曲家の武満徹さんは、「もっと大切なことがあるんじゃないか」が口癖でした。この議論はもうやめましょうという意味だったと思うんですが、武満さんの場合、大切だったのは新しい音を探すこと。僕にとっては、「建築に何が可能か」を問うことなんですね。

2023/02/17　朝日新聞

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