Seiji Ozawa Toru Takemitsu: Quatrain; A Flock Descends (Avantgarde Series) Numbered Limited Edition 180g 45rpm LP

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Album #3 in the Avantgarde vinyl series featuring pioneering recordings from the musical avant-garde.

Toru Takemitsu's Quatrain and A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden exemplify his synthesis of Western avant-garde techniques and Japanese aesthetics. In Quatrain, scored for clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and orchestra, Takemitsu evokes the Japanese concept of ma — the space between things — through fluid shifts of timbre and atmosphere. He likened the work to an emaki, a picture scroll unfolding scene by scene, where each musical idea is independent yet interwoven.

A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden, inspired by a dream, expands these ideas into a circular, non-linear sound world. Its "flock" motif, first heard in the oboe, descends into a shimmering harmonic field created by the strings — the "garden." Here, Takemitsu's sense of time and space becomes immersive and cyclical rather than progressive.

Vinyl mixed & cut from the original analogue 1-inch 8-track master tapes by Rainer Maillard and Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios.

Limited and numbered edition, featuring original artwork and a newly designed, beautifully crafted collector's sleeve with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey, and pressed on 180g vinyl.