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No we thought about it but I decided to do it as we have before.
But with this shipping cost, that US post made, it will be more practical to get 2 or more CDs at once...
So, I will get AN with Rising Sun today.
Well, we always love when folks order more than one CD and it does save on shipping.
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Oct 9, 2013 - 12:43 PM
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couvee
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I received 'Rising Sun' yesterday in the mail and I have played it at least four times already. Just as I predicted this disc will spend a lot of time in my CD-player. With headphones you can even better appreciate his ability to combine subtle texture and colour with such fastidious care.
As well as a respected concert composer Takemitsu was a devoted cinephile and said he watched a movie a day. The ability to go back-and-forth between film music and concert music was an exceptionally stimulating process for him. He loved the challenge to capture the sonic essence of a film. And I think he was very successful in this respect with his haunting music for Rising Sun as is now revealed by this complete score presentation. Bruce already mentioned this would be an entirely different experience from the previous release and it really is. I found the old CD hard to listen to because of the way the selections were mingled with Porter and Ellington. But now, just listen to track 12 'Looking at the disc' or track 18 'Security room'. It creates the illusion of music drifting into being, a unique minimalism without excesses, sounds like snow falling in cold air.
Takemitsu did not expect his music to be understood by the head alone. For him, music must penetrate the heart and soul, as much as the brain. The perceptions that we derive from music are also unique and personal. What is "understood" by every individual listener to a certain piece of music may be different from what is "understood" by every other listener. But I can listen to this endlessly. It's, as Bruce calls it, addictive, mesmerizing. Thank you Kritzerland for this newly discovered gem!
On the booklet and backside of the CD-tray it says 'Composed and Conducted by Toru Takemitsu', but that is not true as inside the correct conductor is mentioned, Hiroyuki Iwaki (quite a name in the classical music world). Also it is stated that "Takemitsu began writing for film in 1962..." He scored at least a dozen films before 1962. Among them Crazed Fruit/Juvenile Passions (1956), Jose Torres (1959) and Bad Boys (1961), to name a few.
"Rising Sun would be his first and only American film scoring assignment..." Well, in 1991 he composed music for Night on Earth (1991) by Jim Jarmusch, but it was not used in the film (the recorded music was retitled "L.A., New York, Paris, Rome, Helsinki"). He also did a beautiful score for The Inland Sea (1991) a documentary film by Lucille Carra (based on a book by Donald Richie) and Dream Window: Reflections on the Japanese Garden (1992) directed by John Junkerman (these scores can all be found on The Complete Takemitsu Edition). But no, he didn't do another big blockbuster type of movie.
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An indeed remarkable atmospheric score i've enjoyed for a few weeks now, sort of a brother of Rodney Bennett's L'IMPRECATEUR or Howard Shore's THE GAME. Astounding release. 
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Plenty of films worse than 'Rising Sun', IMO.
A great score. Glad I took the plunge.
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Jan 22, 2014 - 10:51 PM
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djintrepid
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Finally got this along with The Buccaneer. I can see why people aren't so enthusiastic about this release, but it deserves a chance, better yet a listen. I was a big Sean Connery fan at the time, so even though the film is not all it's cracked up to be, I still watch it every 5 years or so. I can't remember how I felt about the score at the time, though I do remember really digging Tsunami, my tastes have changed a lot since then, so what matters now is, I really like it. It's an excellent release, Bruce. Unexpected, yet highly appreciated.
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Can’t believe this one is still around! RISING SUN is a very good score, and the CD sounds terrific. I’m perfectly aware of the fact that John Williams has more mass appeal than Toru Takemitsu here, but still, there are people who keep buying the same scores over again (for another extra minute of music or so) who have no single copy of this?
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