• These five little pieces, each based on a Hokusai print, make use of various conventions of traditional Japanese music, such as the (differing) forms of Japanese 'soft' and 'hard' scales. These five little pieces, each based on a Hokusai print, make use of various conventions of traditional Japanese music, such as the (differing) forms of Japanese 'soft' and 'hard' scales. An area of the Japanese ukiyo-e or 'pictures of the floating world' is made up of kacho-ga -literally, 'flower-and-bird pi...

Kormoran im Schnee (1'00'') · Karpfen in einem Wasserfall (1'00'') · Azaleen und Kuckuck (1'10'') · Pfingstrosen und Schmetterling (1'45'') · Frosch auf einem alten Ziegel (1'45'')