Toru Takemitsu: Complete Works for Solo Piano (2001)

Toru Takemitsu composed only a small amount of piano music, but this cycle is one of the most significant to be found in the second half of the twentieth century. There are numerous recordings of Takemitsu's piano music that claim to be "complete," but when Paul Crossley's Toru Takemitsu: Complete Works for Solo Piano appeared on the GMN label in 2000, it was more so than most, as it included the first recordings of Takemitsu's Piano Pieces for Children (1979) and his early Romance (1948-1949), which was discovered among ... Read More

Toru Takemitsu composed only a small amount of piano music, but this cycle is one of the most significant to be found in the second half of the twentieth century. There are numerous recordings of Takemitsu's piano music that claim to be "complete," but when Paul Crossley's Toru Takemitsu: Complete Works for Solo Piano appeared on the GMN label in 2000, it was more so than most, as it included the first recordings of Takemitsu's Piano Pieces for Children (1979) and his early Romance (1948-1949), which was discovered among Takemitsu's papers after his death. Crossley's disc has formed something of a template for other complete Takemitsu piano collections since, and Crossley was wise to include his own meditation on Takemitsu's Mystére (1989) under the title of A Vision of Takemitsu to differentiate his collection from all others.Here, the GMN album Toru Takemitsu: Complete Works for Solo Piano is re-released on the CRD label from Britain. Crossley enjoyed an association with Takemitsu late in the... Read Less

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