The one hundred and twenty-third classical recording: #956 Toru Takemitsu - A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden is the only work on the list by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, a Japanese composer who brought some of those roots into western classical music. A Flock Descends makes for a solemn work, at times tense in its build up results in a chaotic set of notes that becomes unsettling, the build up of discordant sounds resulting in a sound that's regularly quite hard to place. It's not a work that says much. Instead, it's a vaguely unsettling sound that takes time to find its place, experimental in a way that I appreciate but also not something that I would be able to listen to in a longer work.