Tsuru-no-Sugomori by Wil Offermans, BFS Trinity Flute Festival in London video

A live video of Wil Offermans performing his arrangement of the Japanese shakuhachi piece "Tsuru-no-Sugomori" during his solo recital at the flute festival for the British Flute Society / Trinity Laban College, at the St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London on 29th. October 2010. More information at www.wiloffermans.com Score available via your local music dealer or via http Offermans' arrangement for flute of "Tsuru-no-Sugomori" has been published by music publisher Zimmermann, Frankfurt. In the score text we read: "This transcription of Tsuru-no-sugomori is based on an interpretation by the shakuhachi master Katsuya Yokoyama. His superb performance clearly demonstrates the possibilities of the shakuhachi. With its flexible sound (eg in dynamic, timbre, intonation and wind-'noise'), the intense use of the breath and its deep-rooted history the shakuhachi has been attracting the interest of many flutists around the world. Some of the sounds in this traditional flute music may be regarded by Western flutists as 'modern' or 'new'. However, the shakuhachi player seems to concentrate on the breathing, accepting the sound itself as a natural consequence. Typically, the shakuhachi player doesn't use any tonguing, but instead starts a sound from the breath and sometimes in combination with the finger (the so-called finger-tonguing!). Especially characteristic are the numerous vibrato techniques (including pitch-bending, glissandi and portamenti). Beside the Western style vibrato ...