🇯🇵Toru Takemitsu ： Cross Hatch for Two Keyboard Instruments

Toru Takemitsu’s *Cross Hatch* invites the listener to focus on the overlap and intersection of sounds created by two pianos. The instruments sometimes trace separate lines and at other times share a common resonance, bringing changes in register, dynamics, and the density of articulation. Rather than following clearly defined melodies alone, it is important to listen to the decay of sounds, the silences, and the changing resonance. In performance, the players should listen closely to one another and shape each exchange with care, while avoiding blurred sonorities through excessive pedal use and presenting the placement of sounds and spaces between them three-dimensionally. The precise breathing between the two performers brings out the work’s delicate tension.