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- Tan Dun
Water Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra (1998)
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- 0+2pic.2.1+bcl.1+cbn/2221/timp.2perc/hp/str (min 88663)
- Percussion
- 27 min
- 7th August 2026, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 8th August 2026, Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Programme Note
Water is an element you can’t block. You can block land, you can say this is China and this is Russia, but water has no such frontiers.
What I want to present… is music that is for listening to in a visual way, and watching in an audio way. I want it to be intoxicating. And I hope some people will listen and rediscover life's elements, things that are around us but we don’t notice.
—Tan Dun
Water Concerto was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic.
Media
Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra in Memory of Toru Takemitsu: Prelude. Largo molto rubato / I. Adagio molto misterioso
Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra in Memory of Toru Takemitsu: II. Andante Molto Animato
Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra in Memory of Toru Takemitsu: III. Allegro Molto Agitato