Toshio Hosokawa Sheet Music for Ensemble

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,...

Für Walter attempts to musically realize the aspirations of every performer, to create an arc with sound and to reach out to something eternal. Special moments of deeper meaning arise not only in the...

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,...

hommage a Olivier Messiaen

Ein Ton entsteht, wird intensiver und verschwindet, vergleichbar mit dem Rhythmus des Werdens und Vergehens in der Natur, dem Atmen der Lebewesen oder den Meereswellen. Dem japanischen Komponisten Tos...

Bei Toshio Hosokawa ist jeder Ton ein musikalisches Erlebnis. Ihm ist wichtig, sich tief in den Ton hineinzuversenken, 'vertikal' die 'Landschaft' eines bestimmten Klanges in all seinen Farben und Sch...

This piece is concerned with the world of shaman, which I have been very interested in lately. A shaman is a person who creates a path connecting this world and the underworld. In this trio, the violi...