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Satoko Inoue: Presents Jo Kondo's Works For Piano 2015-2020

Read "Presents Jo Kondo's Works For Piano 2015-2020" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
November 14, 2024

Inciso nei mesi di aprile e luglio 2022, questo album ci restituisce uno spaccato piuttosto significativo di una serie di recenti pagine per pianoforte, per lo più solitario, del compositore giapponese Jo Kondo, oggi settantasettenne, di cui è nota una sia pur fugace frequentazione di John Cage e Morton Feldman, pagine di cui è protagonista la sua connazionale Satoko Inoue. L'inizio, nel rispetto del titolo ("A Contemplation"), è quanto mai controllato, per guadagnare atmosfere ben più vitali, affermative, ...

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Satoko Inoue: Presents Jo Kondo's Works For Piano 2015-2020

Read "Presents Jo Kondo's Works For Piano 2015-2020" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 19, 2024

Jo Kondo is a composer unto himself, but for ready reference he can be filed in the proximity of John Cage and Morton Feldman, both of whom he got to know in 1978 in New York while in the city on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Satoko Inoue is a concert pianist specializing in modern music. Presents Jo Kondo's Works For Piano 2015-2020 is her second album of Kondo's music for the ezz-thetics label, following Presents Jo Kondo's New ...

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Yuka Shibuya / Satoko Inoue: Works for Piano

Read "Works for Piano" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles
December 4, 2021

For years the Japanese Ftarri label has enjoyed an enviably high reputation for its releases by improvising musicians from Japan, such as Toshimaru Nakamura and Seijiro Mutayama, as well as further afield, such as the duo of Rhodri Davies and John Butcher, or The International Nothing (clarinettists Kai Fagaschinski and MIchael Thieke). In September 2021, in an adventurous move, a companion label, Ftarri Classical, was launched with three releases, the first of which was Works for Piano. (For those who ...