Higher-level Synthesis Music for string quartet by Toshio Hosokawa - heard by ANDREW SCHARTMANN '... the Arditti ensemble produces the effect masterfully.'

Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa's music for string quartet asks us to reevaluate our notion of music as a highly directed temporal art. Of course, music will always be temporal in the most basic sense, but Hosokawa challenges the very nature of that temporality. His art gives the paradoxical impression of static development — the combination of growth over time with something permanent and fixed. But this dichotomy of growth versus permanence is not what we are to take from his work...

TOSHIO HOSOKAWA

WERGO

GERMANY

JAPAN

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

CHAMBER MUSIC