Released to accompany the Orchestre National de Lyon’s fourth tour of Japan, this recording presents the world première recording of Toshio Hosokawa’s Circulating Ocean of which the composer has written: “I am attempting to express in sound the flow and change of water by apprehending sound as water. The ocean is for me the birthplace of life, a being possessed of infinite depth and expanse. The waves rolling in and withdrawing can be felt as ‘the voice from eternity”. The recording also features three of Debussy’s most harmonically innovative and imaginatively orchestrated works, including the great La mer, inspired partly by Katsushika Hokusai’s famous colour woodcut The Great Wave Off Kanagawa.