Takemitsu: Complete Works for Piano

This album contains the complete piano works by Takemitsu, presented by Piano Classics, a label of Brilliant Classics. Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): Available for licensing: More Information: Piano Classics Facebook: Piano Classics Spotify: Piano Classics Spotify: Most Popular Piano Classics: Top 50 Rachmaninoff: Piano at the Opera: Best Piano Music: Peaceful and Relaxing Piano Music: Beautiful Piano Nocturnes: The Best of Liszt: The Best of Chopin: Although the composer once admitted that he took the title for Rain Tree Sketch from a can of shaving foam, the piece and several others in this invaluable collection share a watery theme which links them back to the music of Debussy as well as the more obvious influence of Messiaen. This collection of Takemitsu’s piano music is filled with a quizzical air and often touches of oblique humour, as though someone is smiling, somewhere. With warm, softly resounding chords and pitter-pattering melodic motifs above, Takemitsu’s piano so often evokes rain gently falling on earth and leaves. There are bright, brisk flashes of light as well as a pervasive undertone of melancholy, which in a work such as Les Yeux Clos can be accounted for by the work’s nature as a memorial to a friend. Born in 1987, the Belgian pianist Lukas Huisman has made a speciality of new music, studying with the likes of Ian Pace and Geoffrey Douglas Madge. Through these and other teachers he has immersed himself in the complex worlds of Brian Ferneyhough and Kaiksohru Sorabji, among others, requiring a phenomenal technique as well as an appetite for the unfamiliar and challenging. Composer: Tōru Takemitsu Artist: Lukas Huisman (piano) Brilliant Classics: Facebook: Spotify: Instagram: Tracklist: 00:00:00 Rain Tree Sketch II 00:03:24 Les yeux clos II 00:11:35 Rain Tree Sketch 00:16:03 Les yeux clos Piano Pieces for Children: 00:22:28 I. Breeze 00:23:13 II. Clouds 00:24:37 For Away 00:30:42 Piano Distance Uninterrupted Rests 00:35:41 I. Slowly, Sadly and as if to Converse with 00:37:31 II. Quietly and with a Cruel Reverberation 00:40:48 III. A Song of Love Litany: 00:42:00 I. Adagio 00:46:24 II. Lento misterioso 00:51:48 Romance 00:56:05 De Brauwer: Something, Something. ’n’ Rain ’n’ Such Thanks for watching! Feel free to subscribe and visit our channel for the best classical music from the greatest composers like: Bach, Satie, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Ravel, Debussy, Verdi, Vivaldi, Handel, Brahms, Liszt, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, Strauss, Handel, Dvorak and many more! We upload complete albums, music for relaxing, working, studying, meditating, concentrating, instrumental music, opera, violin, classical piano music, sonatas and more! #Takemitsu #Classical #Piano #Music