Hiyoli Togawa – Children! (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

After Songs of Solitude (BIS2553), 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.

Tracklist:
1. Hiyoli Togawa – Hosokawa: Komori-Uta (Lullaby of Itsuki) (03:47)
2. Hiyoli Togawa – Bach: Suite No. 3 for violoncello in C major, BWV 1009 (arr. for viola): Allemande (03:40)
3. Hiyoli Togawa – Doderer: The little bird (02:23)
4. Hiyoli Togawa – Razaz: The Golden Bee (03:01)
5. Hiyoli Togawa – Lill: Lullaby (06:12)
6. Hiyoli Togawa – Bach: Suite No. 1 for violoncello in G major, BWV 1007 (arr. for viola): Allemande (04:10)
7. Hiyoli Togawa – Gyger: Chanting (03:14)
8. Hiyoli Togawa – Ōshima: Flower (02:52)
9. Hiyoli Togawa – Bach: Suite No. 2 for violoncello in D minor, BWV 1008 (arr. for viola): Allemande (03:03)
10. Hiyoli Togawa – Povolotsky: Here Comes a Swallow (04:49)
11. Hiyoli Togawa – Aho: Nuku, lapsoseni (02:53)
12. Hiyoli Togawa – Bach: Suite No. 5 for violoncello in C minor, BWV 1011 (arr. for viola): Allemande (05:57)
13. Hiyoli Togawa – Gardella: Wiegenlied (03:52)
14. Hiyoli Togawa – Rotaru: Co(ho)quet(us) reMix (05:33)
15. Hiyoli Togawa – Bach: Suite No. 4 for violoncello in E flat major, BWV 1010 (arr. for viola): Allemande (04:02)
16. Hiyoli Togawa – Buffa: To The Unkown Voice (04:14)
17. Hiyoli Togawa – Wang: Sparrows and Puffins (02:14)
18. Hiyoli Togawa – Bach: Suite No. 6 for violoncello in D major, BWV 1012 (arr. for viola): Allemande (07:18)
19. Hiyoli Togawa – Gerassimez: Lullaby of Itsuki (03:59)