★L'OISEAU-LYRE
Hans Werner Henze / Peter Maxwell Davies / Toru Takemitsu
From the liner notes: The idea of music being visible can hardly be more convincingly perceived than in the playing of this musician. To begin with, sound, for Yamash'ta, is not an abstraction, but a mental and physical necessity. He is unable to execute musical textures per se: music to him means words, messages, calls, and self-affirmation, as though he were saying: Listen! I am still alive! Still alive!Aggression and defence are in his work. He knows everything about silence; that is why he u…