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World Premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's Erdbeben. Träume Suite

Nov. 21, 2022

The world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s Erdbeben. Träume Suite was perforemd by the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale de Bologna, under the baton of Marco Angius on November 26 at the Teatro Auditorium Manzoni in Bologna. The suite of orchestral pieces from Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Erdbeben. Träume consists of four movements and a short intermezzo in the middle. Each movement depicts the important scenes from the opera. The libretto by Marcel Beyer, a German writer, was based on Heinrich von Kleist’s Das Erdbeben in Chili. Erdbeben.Träume Suite was commissioned by the Regia Accademia Filarmonica.

On November 4, the Duisburg Philharmoniker Orchestra, led by Jonathan Stockhammer, performed the German premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s Uzu at the Essen Philharmonic. Hosokawa notes, "I have been influenced by music for the shô, a Japanese Gagaku instrument. The shô player produces sound by both inhaling and exhaling slowly: the sound is produced in time as if drawing a series of circles with a slight difference each time, resulting in a spiral structure. This forms one of the fundamental elements of my music. In Uzu, the placing of the orchestral instruments both on stage and around the audience creates a swirl of sound in which the audience is enveloped by soundwaves, just like in shô music. Ultimately, the swirl of sound leads the audience into the world of light."

Listen to Toshio Hosokawa's New Seeds of Contemplation, Mandala for Shomyo and Gagaku (1986/1995):

New Seeds of Contemplation, Mandala for Shomyo and Gagaku/Toshio Hosokawa/
Ensemble Yusei/Toshio Hosokawa, conductor.

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Toshio Hosokawa
Erdbeben. Träume Suite (2019)
for orchestra
2(1.pic, 2.pic, afl).2(2.ca).2(2.bcl).2(2cbsn)-2.2.2.1

Left side group: 2perc[I: glsp, vib, tam-t, b.d, 3tempbl, 4furin, waterphone; II: vib, tam-t, 4bng, 2tempbl, 4furin, waterphone]-hp-str(14.0.6.5.4)

Right side group: 2perc[III: tam-t, 4bng, b.d, 4furin, 4 rins on timp, water; IV: tam-t, 4bng, s.d, 2 tempbl, 4furin, 4rins on timp]-hp, cele-str(0.14.6.5.4)
18'

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