#yoshimatsu

[cottonangel07]

I love their designs way more than I originally thought :p

[symphonybracket]

Which symphony do you prefer?

Mozart 41 ("Jupiter")

Yoshimatsu 4

Voting ended onDec 23, 2024

Mozart 41

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Yoshimatsu 4

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[toonamisquad]

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[mikrokosmos]

Yoshimatsu - Lullaby in Celestial Night, from Pleiades Dances IX (2001)

The Pleiades Dances suites are non-specific pieces of music. There is no need to play them in order, nor is there any overarching story or idea being presented. Yoshimatsu has said not to take his poetic titles too seriously. The idea of the suites was to play around with rhythms, harmonies, and modal music. The name at best can make us think of the stars, and yeah, maybe It’s wrong of me to stretch and say that music is trying to “mean” something, but this music makes the piano sound like starlight. It’s a really pretty piece that lets you get lost in the glittering notes. And maybe it’s sappy but this does have a kind of melancholic feeling, like you can’t help but think of disappointments in your past, or things that you still have to get over. As the stars turn around the night sky, so will everything else change over time, and you have to learn to let go.

Pianist: Kyoko Tabe

[symphonybracket]

Which symphony do you prefer?

Yoshimatsu 4

Sibelius 3

Voting ended onJan 30, 2025

Yoshimatsu 4

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Sibelius 3

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[symphonybracket]

Which symphony do you prefer?

Yoshimatsu 4

Penderecki 2 ("Christmas Symphony")

Voting ended onNov 20, 2024

Yoshimatsu 4

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Penderecki 2

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[mikrokosmos]

Yoshimatsu - The Age of Birds (1986)

Although he is Japanese, Yoshimatsu’s compositional style takes after European aesthetics more than, say, the music of Toru Takemitsu. His style carries after Impressionist influences, and a lot of his works, similarly, have simple evocative titles that aren’t meant to be taken too literally, rather they are trying to give the listener an “impression” of an idea. In this case, the idea is birds flying and singing and the places where they live and are seen. This work is like a symphony, but is more episodic. The themes are based on birdsong, and unlike Rautavaara, he uses the winds to create the birdsong instead of actual bird recordings. But like Rautavaara, the orchestra’s texture is dense and full of tone clusters, as soft melodies play through the clouds. The first movement, Sky, gives the same sense of expansiveness by using the full orchestra to paint this gorgeous idea. The second movement, Trees, has a more “tactile” texture than the first. The plucking of strings and the use of piano and percussion seem to recreate the coarseness of bark and branches. The last movement, Sun, brings back the density of the first movement, and we get beautiful ‘scenes’ of birds singing in the daylight, nature existing without care of human observation. The work dies off quietly. The episodic writing gives us a sense of being passive observers to changing scenes in the moment.

Movements:

1. Sky

2. Trees

3. Sun

[character-archive-gwa]

Shinji Yoshimatsu

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