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Tōru Takemitsu - 12 Songs for Guitar [Audio Score] played by Andrea Dieci
0:00 Londonderry Air
3:37 Over the Rainbow
6:40 Summertime
10:24 A Song of Early Spring
13:47 Amours Perdues
16:48 What a Friend
19:21 Secret Love
21:47 Here, There, and Everywhere
24:50 Michelle
28:03 Hey Jude
30:59 Yesterday
34:25 The International
BIOGRAPHY
Takemitsu was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1930. He first decided to pursue a career in music when he was in his teens at the end of World War II. Recalling this time in an interview for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Takemitsu said that he was “very negative about everything Japanese. During the war it was forbidden to listen to anything but Japanese music, and we were thirsty to hear music of the West and wanted to learn just that music. Only afterwards could I find my own way to Japanese tradition.”At age 18 Takemitsu studied composition privately with Yosuji Kiyose, but otherwise is self-taught and holds no degrees in music. He told Edward Downes, program annotator for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, that his teacher was “his daily life, including all of music and nature.” It is probably this lack of formal musical education and prolonged study with no particular composer that in part accounts for Takemitsu’s highly original style—and this in spite of his experimenting with every new musical method and current among other contemporary composers since World War Eastern And Western StylesTakemitsu has not always been able to use the word “bicultural” to describe his music. In the 1950s his music was entirely in the style of the Western avant-garde; only in the 1960s did he become seriously interested in traditional Japanese instruments, such as the lute-like biwa, and begin to combine them with Western instruments. By the 1970s his integration of Eastern and Western elements was nearly complete. While the ensembles and compositional technique are for the most part Western, the spirit of Takemitsu’sFor the Record…Born October 8, 1920, in Tokyo, Japan. Education: Studied composition with Yosuji is Eastern and almost always evokes natural phenomena. His greatest artistry lies in creating timbres and textures, and the titles of his compositions most frequently allude to sound or sound color as it occurs in nature, for example, Garden Rain, Waves, In an Autumn Defines TechniqueRather than having an all-consuming interest in the process of composing or in abstract musical problems, Takemitsu is intrigued by the contemplation of natural phenomena. Thus he has not written extensively about his own compositional procedure as the overwhelming majority of contemporary composers have, and what writing and lecturing he has done do not include any particular terminology to explain his compositional techniques. Instead, Takemitsu tends to focus on the listener’s potential from his talent in the realm of sound and sound colors, Takemitsu’s music is also unique in its pacing. The listener may get the impression that the music evolves on its own, a characteristic that is directly related to Takemitsu’s evocation of natural phenomena. The structure and climax of his works are often strictly non-Western and thus the aspect of his music the most often misunderstood by Western listeners. Ellen Pfeifer, writing for the Boston Herald, said that there is an “unfortunate sameness about [Takemitsu’s] writing—unvarying dynamic level (quiet) and pace (slowish).” The Japanese critic Hidekazu Yoshida, writing for a Japanese recording of Takemitsu’s works, observed that “in Japanese music, however, it is not unusual for one to bring out the climax, which is supposed to be the cardinal element in the work concerned, very abruptly and without any preparation, or suddenly to cut it…. This traditional sense of beauty of the Japanese has been revived in a very vivid way in Takemitsu’s work. I do not think it was done unconsciously. This is the reason why a piece which at first may sound monotonous and lacking in compactness of structure leaves one with a generally fresh memory after one has listened to it.”Takemitsu gained his greatest international acclaim as a result of the immediate success of his 1967 work, November Steps, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic as part of its 125th anniversary celebration. He continues to be an active and successful composer with a large catalog of published works for all media, including cinema, radio, and television. He is also a frequent lecturer and composer-in-residence at music schools and festivals throughout the world.
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