Soga

装画 Soga – Tadao Sawai (1977)

“Sōga” consists of two movements as well as several adlib sections to make it more demanding for the performers.  Sawai says he wrote this piece for a couple (a koto player and a shakuhachi player) who had recently married.  The title refers to his wish that the piece could become the cover of the history that they were about to create together.