Toshio Hosokawa

Floral Fairy was commissioned for Counter Phrases by Ictus. Counter Phrases is a film-concert with new compositions by 10 composers including Hosokawa based on filmed dances choreographed by Anne Tere...

Eine sehr einfache, im Hintergrund verborgene Melodie bildet die Basis für mein sechstes Streichquartett. Diese Melodie (ferne Stimmen) wird in einem langsamen Tempo gespielt, die ihr zugrundeliegende...

Toshio Hosokawa studied in Tokyo and in Germany (with Isang Yun, among others). His first opera 'Vision of Lear' had its first performance at the 1998 Munich Festival, where it was highly praised as '...

Toshio Hosokawa received his training in Tokyo and in Germany (studying with Isang Yun and Klaus Huber, among others).He has won numerous awards and prizes and has been invited to many important festi...

Der japanische Komponist Toshio Hosokawa ist ein Wanderer zwischen den kulturellen Welten von Ost und West. Eigenen Aussagen zufolge hat er in seiner Heimat ein Gefühl für das Wesen eines einzelnen To...

Hosokawa composed this ten-minute, one-movement piece for the chamber music festival in Kuhmo (Finland). The players need to be familiar with modern playing techniques. If this requirement of modern p...

Toshio Hosokawa studied in Tokyo and in Germany (with Isang Yun, among others). His first opera 'Vision of Lear' had its first performance at the 1998 Munich Festival, where it was highly praised as '...

In this work, the instruments weave an innocent texture of sound, as if they were women knitting together in silence, with the magical atmosphere created from their handiwork. The sounds, like plants,...

Izumi Shikibu was a female poet who lived in the 10th century. She was a beautiful court poet and caused the scandal of her day: she oft en fell in love and wrote several excellent love songs. She exp...

Izumi Shikibu was a female poet who lived in the 10th century. She was a beautiful court poet and caused the scandal of her day: she oft en fell in love and wrote several excellent love songs. She exp...

May. Elementary school song. Composed by Okano Teiichi in 1912. Based on the repetition of a sound pattern like the flow of a brook.

June. A children’s song said to have originated in the Edo period. A playful song.

July. Elementary school song. Composed by Teiichi Okano in 1914.

September. A children’s song, composed by Kosaku Yamada in 1927.

November. A children’s song, composed by Shin Kusakawa in 1923.

January. Composed by Rentaro Taki in 1901. A song of hope for children about the joy of the coming of the New Year.

March. A lullaby that has been handed down from the Edo period.

Commissioned by The Little Singers of Tokyo, this piece is dedicated to the Singers and their Director, Saeko Hasegawa. It was composed as a requiem for Toro Takemitsu. The first performance was given...