Hisada - Led By the Yellow Bricks

The Guardian 80

Ensemble für Neue Musik Zurich/Gottschick
(hat[now]ART)

It seems as though Noriko Hisada prefers to let her music speak for itself.

Other than the year and place of her birth – 1963, Tokyo – and a list of her works to date, it is hard to find out much about Hisada or her musical background. We do know, however, if you hadn’t guessed it from the title, that Led By the Yellow Bricks – her seven-movement suite for an instrumental sextet of two strings, two woodwind, piano and percussion, which was first performed by the Ensemble für Neue Musik Zurich last year – was inspired by Frank Baum’s children’s classic The Wizard of Oz.