Children! Viola Music by Bach & Living Composers / Hiyoli Togawa

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BIS
Release Date
October 27, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Kalevi Aho, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ivan Buffa, Johanna Doderer, Federico Gardella, Alexej Gerassimez
    • PERFORMER
      Hiyoli Togawa, Kiveli Dorken, Alexej Gerassimez
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 27, 2023
    • UPC
      7318599926438
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2643
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Itsuki no Komori Uta (Lullaby of Itsuki) (version for viola)

      Composer: Toshio Hosokawa

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa

    2. Suite for Solo Cello No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009: II. Allemande (arr. for viola)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa

    3. The little bird

      Composer: Johanna Doderer

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa, Kiveli Dörken

    4. The Golden Bee

      Composer: Gity Razaz

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa

    5. Lullaby

      Composer: Märt-Matis Lill

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa, Kiveli Dörken

    6. Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: II. Allemande (arr. for viola)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa

    7. Chanting

      Composer: Elliott Gyger

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa, Kiveli Dörken

    8. Flower

      Composer: Michiru Oshima

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa, Kiveli Dörken

    9. Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: II. Allemande (arr. for viola)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa

    10. Here Comes a Swallow

      Composer: Yuri Povolotsky

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa, Kiveli Dörken

    11. Nuku, lapsoseni

      Composer: Kalevi Aho

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa, Kiveli Dörken

    12. Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: II. Allemande (arr. for viola)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa

    13. Wiegenlied

      Composer: Federico Gardella

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa, Kiveli Dörken

    14. Co(ho)quet(us) reMix

      Composer: Diana Rotaru

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa

    15. Suite for Solo Cello No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 1010: II. Allemande (arr. for viola)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa

    16. To The Unknown Voice

      Composer: Ivan Buffa

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa, Kiveli Dörken

    17. Sparrows and Puffins

      Composer: Lu Wang

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa

    18. Cello Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012: II. Allemande (arr. for viola)

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa

    19. Lullaby of Itsuki

      Composer: Alexej Gerassimez

      Performer: Hiyoli Togawa, Alexej Gerassimez


After Songs of Solitude (BIS-2553), a project designed by Hiyoli Togawa at a time when Covid forced people across the world into isolation (released in March 2021), the Japanese-Australian violist now presents another themed album focusing on the situation of children. During the pandemic, she kept thinking of the many children who do not have a loving home and were forced to stay at home, and so were exposed helplessly to violence, hunger and poverty.

As with her previous disc, she commissioned works on the theme of childhood from composers around the world. Thirteen of them, from Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, answered the call and embarked on a journey into childhood. The result is a collection of lullabies, childhood memories and adventures. Playful, wild, silent, funny, serious or dreamy, these works are musical pleas for the rights of children around the world. Hiyoli Togawa combines them with the Allemandes from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Suites for solo cello. Each of these Allemandes presents a new character, opening a very special dance universe. They invite us to surrender ourselves to the genuine and undisguised joy of playing and perhaps, almost, to lose ourselves in it – to find ourselves.