Artist: Noriko Ogawa Title: Rain Tree: The Complete Solo Piano Music Of Tōru Takemitsu Year Of Release: 1996 Label: BIS Genre: Classical Quality: FLAC (tracks + scans) Total Time: 55:42 Total Size: 147 Mb

Tracklist:

Litany (1950/1989) 01. I. Adagio (con rubato) (5:11) 02. II. Lento misterioso (5:09) Pause ininterrompue (1952–1959) 03. 1. Slowly, sadly and as if to converse with (2:13) 04. 2. Quietly and with a cruel reverberation (3:31) 05. 3. A song of love (1:39) 06. Piano Distance (1961) (5:23) 07. For Away (1973) (7:54) 08. Les yeux clos (1979) (7:00) 09. Les yeux clos II (1988) (8:20) 10. Rain Tree Sketch (1982) (4:40) 11. Rain Tree Sketch II (1992) (4:42)

Performers: Noriko Ogawa, piano

While Takemitsu's musical language is closer to French music, like Messiaen and Debussy, than to traditional Japanese music, the mercurial and mysterious soundscape he paints is of a microcosm of its own - rather like Scriabin's late Sonatas or Poems, Takemitsu's piano works are unclassifiable and as unfathomable as Nature itself