Toru Takemitsu - Notable Compositions

Notable Compositions

Further information: List of compositions by Tōru Takemitsu
Orchestral Works
  • Requiem for String Orchestra (1957)
  • Music of Tree (1961)
  • The Dorian Horizon (1966)
  • Green (1967)
  • Winter (1971)
  • A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (1977)
  • A Way A Lone II for string orchestra (version of A Way a Lone for string quartet)
  • Rain Coming for chamber orchestra (1982)
  • Dream/Window (1985)
  • Twill by Twilight—In Memory of Morton Feldman (1988)
  • Tree Line for chamber orchestra (1988)
  • Visions (1990)
I Mystère
II Les yeux clos
  • How slow the Wind (1991)
  • Archipelago S. for 21 players (1993)
Works for soloists and orchestra
  • Arc Part I for piano and orchestra (1963–1966/1976)
I Pile (1963)
II Solitude (1966)
III Your love and the crossing (1963)
  • Arc Part II for piano and orchestra (1964–1966/1976)
I Textures (1964)
II Reflection (1966)
III Coda ... Shall begin from the end (1966)
  • November Steps for biwa, shakuhachi and orchestra (1967)
  • Asterism for piano and orchestra (1967)
  • Eucalyptus I for flute, oboe, harp and string orchestra (1970)
  • Autumn for biwa, shakuhachi and orchestra (1973)
  • Quatrain for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and orchestra (1975)
  • Far calls. Coming, far! for violin and orchestra (1980)
  • Toward the Sea II for alto flute, harp and string orchestra (version of Toward the Sea for alto flute and guitar (1981))
  • To the Edge of Dream for guitar and orchestra (1983)
  • Orion and Pleiades for cello and orchestra (1984)
  • riverrun for piano and orchestra (1984)
  • I Hear the Water Dreaming for flute and orchestra (1987)
  • Nostalghia—In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky for violin and string orchestra (1987)
  • A String Around Autumn for viola and orchestra (1989)
  • From Me Flows What You Call Time for five percussionists and orchestra (1990)
  • Fantasma/Cantos for clarinet and orchestra (1991), winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
  • Quotation of Dream for two pianos and orchestra (1991)
  • Fantasma/Cantos II for trombone and orchestra (1994)
Electronic and Tape Music
  • Static Relief, magnetic tape (1955)
  • Vocalism A・I, magnetic tape (1956)
  • Water Music (1960)
  • Kaidan (1964)
Chamber works
  • Le Son Calligraphé I–III for four violins, two violas and two cellos (1958–1960)
  • Ring for flute, terz guitar and lute (1961)
  • Corona II for string(s) graphic work in collaboration with Kōhei Sugiura (1962)
  • Arc for Strings graphic work (1963)
  • Valeria for violin, cello, guitar, electric organ and two piccolos (1965)
  • Eucalyptus II for flute, oboe and harp (1971)
  • In an Autumn Garden for gagaku orchestra (1973/1979)
  • Garden Rain for brass ensemble (1974)
  • Waves for clarinet, horn, two trombones and bass drum (1976)
  • Quatrain II for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1977)
  • A Way a Lone for string quartet (1981)
  • Rocking Mirror Daybreak for Violin Duo (1983)
  • Signals from Heaven—two antiphonal fanfares for two brass groups (1987)
I Day Signal
II Night Signal
  • And then I knew 'twas Wind for flute, viola and harp (1992)


Piano works
  • Romance (1949)
  • Lento in Due Movimenti (1950, unpublished/original lost—rewritten as Litany, 1989)
  • Piano Distance (1961)
  • Corona for pianist(s) graphic score (in collaboration with Kōhei Sugiura, 1962)
  • Crossing graphic score (in collaboration with Kōhei Sugiura, 1962)
  • For Away (1973)
  • Les yeux clos (1979)
  • Rain Tree Sketch (1982)
  • Litany—In Memory of Michael Vyner recomposition of Lento in Due Movimenti (1950/1989)
  • Rain Tree Sketch II—In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen (1992)
Guitar
  • Folios (1974)
  • 12 Songs for Guitar (1974, 1977)
  • The Last Waltz (1983)
  • A Boy Named HIROSHIMA (1987)
  • All in Twilight - Four pieces for guitar - written for Julian Bream (1987)
  • Bad Boy (1961, 1992)
  • A Pieces for guitar - For the 60th birthday of Sylvano Bussotti - (1991)
  • Equinox (1993)
  • In the Woods - Three pieces for guitar - (1995)
Film scores
  • Pitfall (Otoshiana), dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara (1962)
  • Harakiri, dir. Masaki Kobayashi (1962)
  • Woman in the Dunes, dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964)
  • Kaidan, dir. Masaki Kobayashi (1964)
  • Assassination, dir. Masahiro Shinoda (1964)
  • The Face of Another, dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara (1966)
  • Samurai Rebellion, dir. Masaki Kobayashi (1967)
  • Double Suicide, dir. Masahiro Shinoda (1969)
  • Dodesukaden, dir. Akira Kurosawa (1970)
  • Empire of Passion, dir. Nagisa Oshima (1978)
  • Ran, dir. Akira Kurosawa (1985)
  • Black Rain, dir. Shohei Imamura (1989)
  • Rising Sun, dir. Philip Kaufman (1993)
Other instrumental
  • Masque, for two flutes (1959, 1960)
  • Eclipse, for biwa and shakuhachi (1966)
  • Voice, (1971)
  • Itinerant—In Memory of Isamu Noguchi, (1989)
  • Paths, for solo trumpet (1994)
  • Air (1995, last published work)

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