Pranav Ranjit | Takashi Yoshimatsu - Symphony No. 2 "At terra" (Score Video) @towardthesea_ | Uploaded October 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
This video is intended only for educational use; please email me at pranav.sivakumar@berkeley.edu regarding any copyright issues.
0:03 I. Dirge from the East
16:27 II. Requiem from the West
25:19 III. Canticle from the South
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sachio Fujioka
Takashi Yoshimatsu (1953-) is a Japanese composer whose broadly neo-Romantic music is influenced by Japanese traditional music, jazz, and rock. Yoshimatsu's music for different instrumentations is often connected by similar or repeated motifs; his larger orchestral works make use of extended instrumental techniques in very organic ways, making them both innovative and highly accessible.
In Yoshimatsu's second symphony "At terra", completed in 1991, one can find precursors to his later "Memo Flora" piano concerto and string orchestra work "And Birds are Still...", tonal passages followed by atonal passages and vice versa, imitations of the shakuhachi (alto flute) and biwa (cello and bass, using snap pizzicato), Impressionist influences, and much more. The title and the names of the movements refer to the composer's inspirations from different musical traditions in Asia, Europe and Africa, respectively.
This video is intended only for educational use; please email me at pranav.sivakumar@berkeley.edu regarding any copyright issues.
0:03 I. Dirge from the East
16:27 II. Requiem from the West
25:19 III. Canticle from the South
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sachio Fujioka
Takashi Yoshimatsu (1953-) is a Japanese composer whose broadly neo-Romantic music is influenced by Japanese traditional music, jazz, and rock. Yoshimatsu's music for different instrumentations is often connected by similar or repeated motifs; his larger orchestral works make use of extended instrumental techniques in very organic ways, making them both innovative and highly accessible.
In Yoshimatsu's second symphony "At terra", completed in 1991, one can find precursors to his later "Memo Flora" piano concerto and string orchestra work "And Birds are Still...", tonal passages followed by atonal passages and vice versa, imitations of the shakuhachi (alto flute) and biwa (cello and bass, using snap pizzicato), Impressionist influences, and much more. The title and the names of the movements refer to the composer's inspirations from different musical traditions in Asia, Europe and Africa, respectively.
![Eduard Tubin - Symphony No. 11 [unfinished] (Score Video)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l-vYcU8buKo/hqdefault.jpg "Eduard Tubin - Symphony No. 11 [unfinished] (Score Video)
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arvo Volmer
Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) was an Estonian composer and conductor, his countrys most prolific and arguably greatest symphonist. Having completed his studies under another very prominent Estonian composer, Heino Eller (whose music I also plan to upload), in independent Estonia, Tubin fled following the Soviet reoccupation of his country in 1944. He settled permanently in Sweden for the rest of his life, writing many of his most important works, being elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, and becoming a Swedish citizen in 1961. In addition to an impressive eleven symphonies, Tubin wrote two operas, the first Estonian ballet (Kratt), concerti for double bass and balalaika, choral music, art songs, and chamber and solo works (particularly violin and piano music.)
For those unacquainted with Tubin, his orchestral music - particularly the symphonies of his middle and later period - shares some common elements with Shostakovich, often marrying relatively rigid formal structures like fugues with rather astringent harmonic ideas and an unexpected emotional intensity. He also often brought Estonian folk music into several of his works. Although Tubins work was initially somewhat unrecognized outside Estonia (even in Sweden), it has gained prominence in the last few decades due to the efforts of Estonian conductors including Neeme and Paavo Järvi.
The eleventh symphony, which Tubin was working on when he passed away in 1982, combines the aforementioned characteristics with a rather bright orchestration typical of his later music. The last minute or so of the first movement was completed by the Estonian-Canadian composer Kaljo Raid, resulting in the recording here; the score I have available is a copy of Tubins manuscript and thus does not contain this completion.
I now have scores of all of Tubins symphonies except the first; some of them are scans of old and battered copies, so they will take a little longer to upload - especially as most of his symphonic works are quite substantial in both musical material and length. I also plan to post his balalaika concerto soon, so if you enjoyed this work, stay tuned for more!")
