Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000)
Part Four
4/5. Alan Hovhaness's experience of the court music of Korea led him to remark 'I thought this was the most mysterious music I had ever heard', and for him the 1960s became a time when he immersed himself in the music and culture of the far East, developing a very personal amalgamation of occidental and oriental traditions. Donald Macleod surveys the work of this period.
Playlist
Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints (1965)
BBC SSO / Ken Young / Heather Corbett
BBC Recording
Distant Lake of Sighs
Ara Berberian (bass) / Hovhaness (piano)
Poseidon Society LP 1009 s1 b1
The Holy City, op 218 (1965 or 1967)
BBC SO / Douglas Bostock
BBC Recording
Suite from String Quartet no 2
Shanghai Quartet
Delos DE 3162 tr 9-11
Meditation on Zeami op 207 (1964)
BBC SO / Douglas Bostock
BBC Recording
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