From Me Flows What You Call Time / Twill by Twilight

From Me Flows What You Call Time / Twill by Twilight

Takemitsu (1930-96) is Japan's greatest composer. He had a diverse musical career, which included work for films. His music partakes of aspects of postmodernism--serial construction, atonal modalities, unusual instrumentation--and all of it hypnotic. The works on this disc are for a chamber-size orchestra and are illuminated by the smaller forces. <I>From Me Flows What You Call Time</I> (1990) brings to mind a set of delicate, atonal wind chimes. <I>Twill by Twilight--In Memory of Morton Feldman</I> (1988) reflects Feldman's juxtapositions and separations, but with a bit more color. <I>Requiem</I> (1957), Takemitsu's first orchestral work, is stunning and very beautiful. <I>--Paul Cook</I>