Toshio Hosokawa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 - CD

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<p>Japanese musicians have often taken the connection between man and nature as their theme and award-winning composer Toshio Hosokawa stands strongly in that artistic lineage. His <i>Horn</i> <i>Concerto &lsquo;Moment of Blossoming' </i>imagines the solo instrument as a lotus flower and the orchestra as the cosmos. The theme of the blossoming lotus continues in the piano concerto <i>Lotus under the moonlight </i>and in the songful <i>Chant </i>for cello and orchestra, influenced by Shômyô singing (the ceremonial music of Japanese Buddhism). The <i>Horn Concerto </i>was co-commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and London's Barbican Centre.</p>