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Blossoming II

for chamber orchestra
orchestra
Edition: Performance material

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Over the last few years I have composed on the theme of ’flowers’. My grandfather was a master of Ikebana (the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement); Zeami, the original practioner of the traditional Japanese theatre form Nō, considered the best performer a ’flower’. The deep roots of flowers in Japanese aesthetics and spirituality led me to them as the subject of this work. The flower I’m imagining in this work is a lotus, which is the symbolic flower of Buddhism. The flower and I are one; the blossoming of the flower represents my shedding of my skin, my self-discovery. Toshio Hosokawa

Orchestral Cast

2(2.pic).2(2.ca).2(2.bcl).2(2.cbsn)-2.2.0.0-1perc(b.d, tam-t, tri, Jap.wind bells)-strings(8.6.4.4.2)

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Title:
Blossoming II
for chamber orchestra
Edition:
Performance material
Level of difficulty:
difficult
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Co. Ltd., Tokyo
Year of composition:
2011
Duration:
12 ′
World Premiere:
August 21, 2011 · Edinburgh (UK)
Usher Hall
Edinburgh International Festival 2011
Conductor: Robin Ticciati · Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival Society

Technical Details

Product number:
LSJ 4617-01

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Performances

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  • Blossoming II
    Conductor: Pedro Carneiro
    Orchestra: Orquesta de Cámara Portuguesa
    March 27, 2024 | Oeiras (Portugal) , Escola Secundaria Luis de Freitas Branco — National Premiere
  • Blossoming II
    Conductor: Kazushi Ono
    Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic
    February 3, 2024 | Brussels (Belgium) , Flagey — National Premiere
  • Blossoming II
    Conductor: Modestas Pitrėnas
    Orchestra: Lietuvos nacionalinė filharmonija
    November 4, 2023 | Vilnius (Lithuania) , Filharmoni, Didžioji salė
  • Blossoming II
    November 4, 2023 | Vilnius (Lithuania) , Lietuvos nacionalinė filharmonija
  • Blossoming II
    Conductor: Antonello Manacorda
    Orchestra: Kammerakademie Potsdam
    February 17, 2023 | Berlin (Germany) , Pierre Boulez Saal
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