From Me Flows What You Call Time is a concerto for 5 percussionists and orchestra from 1990 by Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu (1930 - 1996). One of the more recent works in my list, this follows the 20th century tradition of writing concertos for unusual instruments. The title is taken from a poem by the Japanese poet Makoto Ooka, titled “Clear Blue Water”. It's a beautiful and evocative piece that deserved to be better known than it is. The average playing time is 31 minutes (AllMusic). My version is by percussion group Nexus and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra under Carl St. Clair on a Sony CD.
