Utwory na płycie:

• Claude Debussy: La danse du Puck
• Takayuki Rai: Misty Stillness

Claude Debussy:
La danse du Puck
Des pas sur la neige
Canope
Brouillards
Feuilles mortes
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l‘air du soir

Satoshi Minami:
Soundprint No. 4

Yasuko Yamaguchi:
Die Entdeckung der Freude im Schnee

Takashi Fujii:
Annotation on a Japanese Lullaby

Kumiko Omura:
A travers le brouillard

Takayuki Rai:
Misty Stillness

Asako Miyaki:
The garden of afterimage II - butterfl y pattern

Hints of music from the Far East, namely the Japanese pentatonic (sometimes modified), appear in many works of Debussy such as Chansons de Bilitis and Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien as well as in several of the Préludes for piano. The answer to these Préludes on behalf of Japanese composers is a form of musical Haiku or rather Waka (respondent poem). It presents the chosen Prélude in a new perspective and illustrates for the listener Debussy‘s relationship to Japanese culture. In return, Debussy‘s huge influence on Japanese composers becomes perceptible as a source of inspiration for them.

As a homage to Claude Debussy the six Japanese composers Takashi Fujii, Satoshi Minami, Asako Miyaki, Kumiko Omura, Takayuki Rai und Yasuko Yamaguchi each wrote a piece for clarinet and harp that is related to one of the preludes by Debussy. These preludes are originally composed for piano solo and were transcribed for clarinet and harp by Duo Imaginiare.

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Recording: 10-11/2016, Japan Foundation, Cologne/Germany