Tabi-bito
composer: Toshio Hosokawa
Wanderer
Concerto for percussion and orchestra
Premiere: October 27, 2000 Köln, Philharmonie (D) · Isao Nakamura, Schlagzeug · Conductor: Ken Takaseki · WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln · Organizer: WDR
Orchestra instrumentation: solo percussion: b.d, tam-t, cong, bng, s.d, 4tom-t, 4trgl, cym.ant, 4rins on timp, tamb, foot-b.d, 3 or 4Jap.wind bells, 2tibet.crot, 4log drums
orchestra: 2(2pic).2(2ca).2(2bcl).2(2cbsn)-4.2.2.1-2perc(2tam-t, 2gongs, 2b.d, cym.ant, tub bells, bng, 4trgl, vib, 4rins on timp)-pno-str(14.12.10.8.6)
Publisher: Schott Music Co. Ltd., Tokyo
Duration: 25' 0''
Year of composition: 2000
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The title Tabi-bito is Japanese for “traveller”, symbolized by the soloist. At the outset of the work, the soloist raises his/her arms slowly in the air and strikes one note loudly as if to draw a circle. ’The act of striking something and producing sound is very primordial’ describes the composer in his notes on the work. These somewhat ritualistic physical acts on the part of the soloist can be seen as a critique of contemporary music, in that the primitive impulse of the human body to produce sound and the very simple physical sensation and joy of creating sound can so often be forgotten.
Recordings
Tabi-bito (2009)
Toshio Hosokawa- Tabi-bito
- Sen VI
- Die Lotosblume
Isao Nakamura (percussion) · WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln · Ken Takaseki (conductor) · WDR Rundfunkchor Köln · Rupert Huber (conductor)
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