Track Listing

1. Day Signal
2. Quotation of Dream
3. How Slow the Wind
4. Twill by Twilight
5. Archipelago S.
6. Dream/Window
7. Night Signal

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16331 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

From Amazon.com
Sometimes, even while you are listening, it can be very difficult to understand how Takemitsu created such exquisitely beautiful music using so much dissonance. As the brief Day Signal opens the disc, for example, you're more likely to think of the glory of sunrise than of the discords. And Quotation of Dream, which quotes freely from Debussy's La Mer, is nearly as beautiful as its source. Rather than waste time figuring out how Takemitsu's spacing of notes and imaginative scoring influences our perceptions, it's much more rewarding just to relax and let the music wash over you. Knussen, who leads amazing performances here, has programmed the disc for a continuous listening experience, although the novice should probably listen only to a couple of pieces at one sitting. --Leslie Gerber