Takemitsu - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop - A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden • Spirit Garden • Dreamtime Album

Tracklist

1	Funeral Music (From Black Rain)	5:17
2	Spirit Garden	14:42
3	Dreamtime	14:35
4	A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden	13:52
5	Music Of Training And Rest (From José Torres)	5:12
6	Solitude Sonore	6:32
7	Three Film Scores For String Orchestra (1994/95)
8	Waltz (From Face Of Another)	2:26
9	-

Credits

• Composed By – Toru Takemitsu
• Conductor – Marin Alsop
• Engineer – Mike Clements
• Liner Notes – Andrew Burn
• Orchestra – Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
• Producer – Andrew Walton

Notes

Recorded at the Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, 14th and 16th January 2005. Recorded and edited at 24 bit resolution.

Barcodes

• Barcode: 747313276028
• Label Code: LC 05537
• Rights Society: GEMA

Short intro

Dating from 1977, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden was brought about as a commission from Edo de Waart and the San Francisco Symphony. A play on numerology, the work is based on five different scales that have five possible transpositions. Alsop and the Bournemouth Symphony dive into Takemitsu's landscape with breathtaking beauty, compassion, and shimmering detail. Album 2006 7 Songs. Spirit Garden 1994. Solitude Sonore 1958. Three Film Scores for String Orchestra 199495: Music of Training and Rest from Jose Torres. A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden 1977. 7 Songs, 1 Hour 2 Minutes. Released: 25 Jul 2006. 2006 Naxos. More By Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. Of Beauty and Light: The Music of Philip Glass. Dvorák: Complete Symphonies. A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden for orchestra 1977. The album features: A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden which sounds like the magnum opus of a pretentious 1970s prog rock band. It was composed in 1977. This is one of Takemitsu's most famous works and is 13 minutes long. Maybe I watched too much TV as a kid, but it reminded me of a murder mystery soundtrack from the 1960s. The strings screech and there are soft and loud passages. This is no linear progression or melody, just a collection of stock sounds which to me, as an experienced TV viewer, seemed to signal surprise, shock, or danger. Jerry Goldsmith may have bee. Listen free to Marin Alsop: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra TAKEMITSU: A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden. Do you know any background info about this album Start the wiki. Antoni Wit: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. 1,786 listeners. Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Concentus Musicus Wien. Currently Unavailable. Artist: Toru Takemitsu , Marin Alsop , Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Genre: Classical Release Date: 07252006 Label: Naxos International Catalog Number: 8557760 Recording: Studio Length: Format: CD. Artist Releases. Amoeba and the Amoeba Music mark and logo are trademarks of Amoeba Music Inc. x Sign-up for emails, sales alerts & more: Email Address . Disc IDs 1. Spirit Garden from 2005-01-14 until 2005-01-16. composer: 武満徹 composer in 1994. Marin Alsop conductor from 2005-01-14 until 2005-01-16. recording of: Solitude Sonore from 2005-01-14 until 2005-01-16. composer: 武満徹 composer in 1958. Toru Takemitsu. Three Film Scores for String Orchestra: Music of Training and Rest from José Torres. orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 2005-01-14 until 2005-01-16. conductor . In that sense, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden, written in 1977 for the San Francisco Symphony, is the archetypal Takemitsu work, scrupulously organised and teasingly descriptive. The extracts from three of his film scores, meanwhile, provide a sample of the other important side of his composing life. Classical music. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal GardenNaxos Alsop relives the excitement felt by the West at the emergence of the Japanese composer Takemitsu in 1958 with his work Solitude Sonore. With a. A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden. Alsop relives the excitement felt by the West at the emergence of the Japanese composer Takemitsu in 1958 with his work Solitude Sonore. With a delicate baton she shapes the melancholy phrases, restrains the sorrowful pneumatic brass and imparts a weightlessness to the almost silky strings. Takemitsu: A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden classical music album - Play streams in full or download MP3 from Classical Archives , the largest and best organized classical music site on the web. CD 1. Toru Takemitsu Composer. Spirit Garden. Marin Alsop Conductor, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Orchestra