Takemitsu in Autumn
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
It’s a double autumn celebration this eveningonce for the season and once for Toru Takemitsu, who was born this day in 1930, and whose “autumn” piece we play.
You can hear the English pianist Martin Jones play the Catalan composer Federico Mompou’s nine “Impresiones intimas” toward the end of our first hour, pieces that according to the composer were influenced by his admiration for Fauré. Hour two features the original Guarneri Quartet performing Dvorák’s String Quartet No. 12, the “American,” written while the composer was spending time at the Czech community of Spillville, Iowa. Speaking of the Guarneri, its most recent incarnation (with cellist Peter Wiley) can be heard live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 8th.
Toru Takemitsu called himself “a gardener of music,” and his “In an Autumn Garden” may reflect his fondness for the natural beauty and cultured formality found in Japanese gardens. We hear a performance by the Music Department of the Imperial Household. For a take on autumn from a different persective, pianist Luiz de Moura Castro plays Piazzolla’s “Autumn in Buenos Aires.”
You can hear the English pianist Martin Jones play the Catalan composer Federico Mompou’s nine “Impresiones intimas” toward the end of our first hour, pieces that according to the composer were influenced by his admiration for Fauré. Hour two features the original Guarneri Quartet performing Dvorák’s String Quartet No. 12, the “American,” written while the composer was spending time at the Czech community of Spillville, Iowa. Speaking of the Guarneri, its most recent incarnation (with cellist Peter Wiley) can be heard live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 8th.
Toru Takemitsu called himself “a gardener of music,” and his “In an Autumn Garden” may reflect his fondness for the natural beauty and cultured formality found in Japanese gardens. We hear a performance by the Music Department of the Imperial Household. For a take on autumn from a different persective, pianist Luiz de Moura Castro plays Piazzolla’s “Autumn in Buenos Aires.”
