Töru Takemitsu - Takemitsu: Distant Echoes (2026)

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Title: Takemitsu: Distant Echoes
Year Of Release: 2026
Label: Warner Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 04:02:16
Total Size: 800 MB
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Tracklist:

1. Romance (3:55)
2. All in Twilight: No. 1 (3:09)
3. All in Twilight: No. 2 (3:19)
4. All in Twilight: No. 3 (2:18)
5. All in Twilight: No. 4 (2:59)
6. Uninterrupted Rest: I. Slowly, Sadly and as if to Converse With (2:58)
7. Uninterrupted Rest: II. Quietly and with a Cruel Reverberation (3:00)
8. Uninterrupted Rest: III. A Song of Love (1:59)
9. Voice (6:33)
10. Garden Rain (6:48)
11. 12 Songs for Guitar: No. 1, Londonderry Air (3:48)
12. 12 Songs for Guitar: No. 9, Michelle (3:12)
13. 12 Songs for Guitar: No. 10, Hey Jude (3:14)
14. 12 Songs for Guitar: No. 11, Yesterday (3:18)
15. Green "November Steps II" (Live) (6:27)
16. Rain Tree Sketch (3:54)
17. Piano Distance (4:42)
18. Rain Tree Sketch II "In memoriam Olivier Messiaen" (4:42)
19. Landscape, for String Quartet (7:55)
20. Paths, in memoriam Witold Lutosławski (6:25)
21. Visions: I. Mystère (6:25)
22. Litany: I. Adagio (4:54)
23. Litany: II. Lento misterioso (6:30)
24. Rain Coming (8:34)
25. Rain Spell (9:53)
26. Les yeux clos (7:37)
27. Les yeux clos II (7:37)
28. Waterways (10:21)
29. Nostalghia, in Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky (10:54)
30. Air (6:52)
31. Tree Line (12:19)
32. To the Edge of Dream, for Guitar and Orchestra (12:58)
33. For Away (7:34)
34. Fantasma/Cantos (16:30)
35. Cassiopeia, for Solo Percussion and Orchestra (19:51)
36. Dream/Window (9:08)

Marking the 30th anniversary of his passing, this collection honours Toru Takemitsu’s unique ability to weave diverse musical lineages into a single, seamless language. Rather than opposing traditions, Takemitsu’s work exists in the vibrant space where they converge, a world of intellectual rigor and profound sensory depth. His compositions are not merely heard; they are inhabited like living landscapes, defined by a mastery of timbre and a rhythmic pulse dictated by the breath. By elevating the "unspoken" within the sound, these works remain a timeless testament to a composer who found the universal within the particular. From guitar miniatures to vast orchestral tapestries, Distant Echoes offers a broad overview of Takemitsu’s music, and features among others Kenji Miura, Simon Rattle, Emmanuel Pahud, Sharon Isbin, Bertrand Chamayou, Seiji Ozawa, Stomu Yamashta…