Work of the Week - Toru Takemitsu: Three Film Scores
On 23rd September the Mahler Chamber Orchestra will give the Chinese premiere of Toru Takemitsu's Three Film Scores conducted by Tan Dun, one of China's most well known musicians. The premiere will take place at the new Grand National Theatre in Beijing.
As well as the composer's extraordinary œuvre of concert music, Takemitsu was also an exceptionally gifted film composer. Talking about his passion for cinema he once remarked that: "The reason I love movies is because I experience them as music, I sense something about people there. In film I can feel their inner lives and as I watch the images on the screen … I feel I can understand them – it’s a musical way of understanding."
Takemitsu's Three Film Scores unites material from three of the composer's most well know film scores. The first movement is taken from the film "Jose Torres" which deals with the conflict of western vitality and eastern reflection. Music from "Kuroi Ame" ("Black Rain"), a film which documents the destruction of Hiroshima during the Second World War, forms the second movement and the final movement features a waltz, from the sound the sci-fi trilogy "Tanin no Kao" ("Face of Another", image above).
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