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Voyage VI

for viola and strings
viola and strings
Since 1997, Toshio Hosokawa has been working on a series of Voyages. Each work has a different solo instrument accompanied by a chamber orchestra or ensemble. The composer explains following story in this sixth work: ’…the music is at first defiant and adventurous like youth, throwing down a gauntlet to the world. As the music progresses, its strength retreats and relaxes. Now watching life from the sidelines, it slowly leans toward death’.
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Since 1997, Toshio Hosokawa has been working on a series of Voyages. Each work has a different solo instrument accompanied by a chamber orchestra or ensemble. The solo instruments of the ten works which make up the cycle are: violin (Voyage I), bassoon (Voyage II), trombone (Voyage III), accordion (Voyage IV), flute (Voyage V), viola (Voyage VI), trumpet (Voyage VII), tuba (Voyage VIII), guitar (Voyage IX) and shakuhachi (Voyage X).

Hosokawa drew his inspiration for the Voyage cycle as follows: The soloist symbolizes a human being that throws a song to the ensemble/orchestra standing for the universe enclosing the human being, and the universe responds the song. The song reaches the universe and the reaction returns to the human being again. Hosokawa called the process of these exchanges Voyage, and thought a sense of unity develops between human beings and the universe through the journey.

Orchestral Cast

4.3.3.2.1 (or more)

More Information

Title:
Voyage VI
for viola and strings
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2002
Duration:
15 ′
World Premiere:
June 2, 2002 · Tokyo (J)
Casals Hall Viola Space 2002
Nobuko Imai, viola · Conductor: Koichiro Harada · Toho Gakuen Orchestra

Commissioned work :
Commissioned by Casals Hall Viola Space 2002

Technical Details

Product number:
LSJ 2371-01

Performances

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  • Voyage VI
    Orchestra: Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar
    September 1, 2022 | Budapest (Hungary) , Magyar Zene Háza
  • Voyage VI
    weit! neue musik weingarten
    Conductor: Marie Jacquot
    Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester
    November 27, 2021 | Weingarten (Germany) , KUKO
  • Voyage VI
    Conductor: Gabriel Venzago
    Orchestra: Münchener Kammerorchester
    November 9, 2021 | München (Germany) , Schwere Reiter
  • Voyage VI
    Conductor: Tatsuya Shimono
    Orchestra: Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra
    January 30, 2020 | Hiroshima (Japan) , Aster Plaza
    18:45
  • Voyage VI
    Conductor: Masaru Kumakura
    Orchestra: Special Ensemble
    September 23, 2019 | Tokyo (Japan) , Tokyo Concerts Lab.
    19:00
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