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Toshio Hosokawa - Silent Flowers - String Quartets (2013) {WERGO WER 6761 2, Arditti Quartet}

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Date: 19 Apr 2021 18:28:23

Toshio Hosokawa - Silent Flowers - String Quartets (2013) {WERGO WER 6761 2, Arditti Quartet}
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© 2013 WERGO / Schott Music | WER 6761 2
Classical / Contemporary Classical / Modern Classical / Chamber Music

The quartets of Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa presented here bring to mind a fusion of Western avant-garde textures and extended instrumental techniques with traditional Japanese aesthetics. It's an immensely absorbing combination, and his music appears to have evolved over the years in a more Japanese direction while not losing any of its innovative qualities. Consider the opening work, Blossoming, which true to its name depicts the blossoming of a flower. It sounds like a hackneyed concept, but the realization here is striking: the action unfolds over nearly 14 minutes coalescing out of silence and then a panoply of minute details. All the music uses silence in compelling ways. Possibly the highlight is the set entitled Kalligraphie (tracks 3-8), which again is straightforward in concept: it depicts the graceful brushstokes of traditional Japanese writing. But again the level of detail is striking; the work achieves an almost verbal utterance. The works on the album, though recognizably the product of the same composer, do not repeat themselves, and their engagement with traditional visual aesthetics have manifestly deepened over the 30 years during which they were composed. Needless to say, the technical requirements of this music for both the players and the engineers are formidable, and both the Arditti Quartet and the Wergo-label team are up to the task; the hair-trigger tension achieved by the Arditti players is remarkable. This is for even those who don't think they like contemporary string quartets.

Toshio Hosokawa's compositions for string quartet reveal manifold links with traditional Japanese arts: music, poetry, calligraphy, ink painting, and philosophy inspire him to compose his works. His compositional esthetic is also influenced decisively by his relationship to nature. Hosokawa has on occasion mentioned that the specific sounds in his string quartets are not only derived from the fertile ground of Asian spirituality, but also from the scores of western modern and avant-garde composers, declaring that it is not his intention to perpetuate divisions between Europe and Asia: 'I would not like to emphasize the leaves and branches of the different kinds of music that have developed within the two spheres of eastern and western culture, but rather find the common aspects that exist in the roots out of which both have grown'. The Arditti Quartet enjoys a world-wide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. Many hundreds of string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. As the Ardittis approach 40 their busy schedule has included a rare Royal Albert Hall appearance as part of the Henry Wood Promenade concerts on 15th July, playing Lachenmann's Tanzsuite for quartet and orchestra with the Bamberg Symphony under Jonathan Nott. August saw a welcome return to the Edinburgh festival. Irvine Arditti will have his 60th birthday concert on 16th October in the Wigmore hall in London. This year, the quartet will play two concerts at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival: on 15th November, they will open the festival in a concert with the Freiburg experimental studio; on 21st November the quartet will perform an all-Zorn concert, which will contain, both of his quartets, Necronomicon and The Alchemist , as well as the new quintet with soprano, Pandora's Box with Sarah Maria Sun. In 2014 there will be a concert in the Milton Court hall of the Barbican to celebrate the 40 years of the Arditti quartet.

Personnel:

Arditti Quartet
Irvine Arditti: violin
Ashot Sarkissjan: violin
Ralf Ehlers: viola
Lucas Fels: violoncello

Track Listing:

01 - Blossoming
02 - Floral Fairy
03 - Kalligraphie, 1
04 - Kalligraphie, 2
05 - Kalligraphie, 3
06 - Kalligraphie, 4
07 - Kalligraphie, 5
08 - Kalligraphie, 6
09 - Landscape 1
10 - Silent Flowers
11 - Urbilder, 1
12 - Urbilder, 2
13 - Urbilder, 3
14 - Urbilder, 4
15 - Urbilder, 5

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Toshio Hosokawa / Silent Flowers - String Quartets

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