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Music from Rikyu -- Toru Takemitsu
Rikyu (1989) is an extremely beautiful film about the eponymous tea-ceremony master. As the dedicated tea master of the shogunate, Rikyu was at pains to keep his own counsel, but political intrigue inevitably caught up with him, and in the end he was forced to perform seppuku. The film, with painstaking arts direction, used genuine antique tea-ceremony apparatus of the period.

Both in form and instrumentation, Takemitsu's music looks both to the East and West and traverses through time. This piece begins with Eastern mouth organ playing music that could have been written by Henry Purcell. The mood then darkens: heavy, amplified plucked strings roll like thunder, with modern-sounding glissandos creating a very heavy, unsettling effect. The music turns atonal, with moaning string figures reminiscent of Penderecki's Threnody. Yet at its close, the music brings us back to the distant past with an elegiac tribute to pre-Baroque consort music.
 
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