Seiji Ozawa - Takemitsu: Quatrain; A Flock Descends Into The Pentagonal Garden - Avantgarde Series LP

Avantgarde Vinyl Series No. 3 on 180-gram vinyl

Mixed & lacquers cut from the original analog 1" 8-track master tapes by Rainer Maillard and Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios

Limited and numbered edition with original artwork

Plus a newly-designed, beautifully crafted collector's sleeve with new liner notes by Bradford Bailey

Album No. 3 in the brand new vinyl series from Deutsche Grammophon 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.

Mixed & lacquers cut from the original analog 1" 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 180-gram vinyl.

Side A
1. Takemitsu: Quatrain

Side B
1. Takemitsu: A Flock Descends Into the Pentagonal Garden