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20th century

Baroque

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Solo repertoire

Piccolo

Alto flute

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Takemitsu Tōru

Aitken, Robert

Arnold, Malcolm

Barber, Samuel

Bartók, Béla Viktor János

Beaser, Robert

Bennet, Richard Rodney

Berio, Luciano

Bernstein, Leonard

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Colquhoun, Michael

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Corigliano, John

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Dohnányi, Ernő

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Foote, Arthur

Foss, Lukas

Françaix, Jean

Fukushima, Kazuo

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Hosokawa, Toshio

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Sancan, Pierre

Schulhoff, Erwin

Schwantner, Joseph

Sciarrino, Salvatore

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Tailleferre, Germaine

Takemitsu, Tōru

Taktakishvili, Otar

Varèse, Edgar

Vasks, Pēteris

Weigl, Vally

Williams, Ralph Vaughan

Yun, Isang

Voice for flute solo

By Takemitsu Tōru

T. Takemitsu: Voice for solo flute was written in one day: 8 April 1971 and premiered in Tokyo by Aurèle Nicolet who commissioned the piece. The composition showcases various extended techniques and consists of three sections: Encounter, Active, and Calm. Besides playing the instrument, flutist has to extensively use voice – to sing, speak (quoting a line from Shuzo Takiguchi poem “Handmade Proverbs”: "Qui va là? Qui que tu sois, parle, transparence! (Who goes there? Speak, transparence, whoever you are!)", shout, growl, hum, and click the tongue.

Davide Formisano

2014, live performance

Voice

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Aurèle Nicolet

1971

Voice

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Mark Takeshi McGregor

2013, Redshift Music / Naxos

Voice

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Takemitsu Tōru

Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996) was a Japanese composer, known for combining elements of oriental and occidental philosophy, mixing sounds, silence, tradition and innovation.
Born in Tokyo, he was enlisted in military service at the age of 14 during World War II. Due to prolonged illness after the war, he was exposed to Western music through the U.S. Armed forces network where he worked at that time. His bitter experiences of Japanese military service explained his unwillingness to pursue traditional music of his native Japan. Mostly self-taught Takemitsu was lured by electronic music possibilities and was a founding member of experimental workshop Jikken Kōbō in early 1950s.

He received international recognition with his Requiem for string orchestra (1957) when Stravinsky accidentally listen to it and later invited him for lunch.  This facilitated his first comission from the Koussevitzky Foundation – symphonic work Dorian Horizon (1966). Further musical explorations of Takemitsu were inspired by Olivier Messiaen, John Cage (and his Zen practice) and Anton Webern as well as studies of traditional Japanese instruments from which his “November steps” for biwa, shakuhachi and orchestra was premiered by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra led by Seiji Ozawa and strengthened his international reputation as one of the leading Japanese composers of the 20th century. Considered as the first Japanese composer who was fully recognized in the West, Takemitsu legacy consists of several hundreds of various works, including scores for more than 90 films and publishing 20 books.