Known for drawing unusual sonorities from conventional instruments, Xenakis strangely left the piano's potential for novel sounds unexplored. In these works, Xenakis stays on the keyboard without so much as a plucked string or any use of gadgetry to alter the instrument's sound. Although that might make these pieces appear less radical, even "safe ...
Fans of the mystically shaded and aesthetically rarefied keyboard music of Giacinto Scelsi will not need much prompting to snap up this 2006 disc, the third volume in Mode's comprehensive survey of the reclusive composer's piano works. With the eloquent and skillful pianist Aki Takahashi in absolute control of this mysterious and evanescent ...
Despite shifting trends and changing tastes in postmodern era contemporary music, Luciano Berio remains one of the most respected figures among composers active in the last half of the twentieth century. Berio's series of Sequenzas, however, are viewed as his main contribution to solo instrumental literature, sort of like Hindemith's instrumental ...
The composer of Camerata's Hayasaka-Humiwo: Piano Pieces for Chamber is recognized more readily in the West under the name Fumio Hayasaka; he is best known abroad as the composer of the score to Akira Kurosawa's film The Seven Samurai (1954). A close friend of Godzilla music composer Akira Ifukube, Hayasaka felt that the common thread between ...
Schubert's sprawling final Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D. 960, inspires interpretations perhaps even more diverse than the numerous recordings of Beethoven's major sonatas. But this recording by Japan's Aki Takahashi, a pianist who has specialized in Japanese and Western contemporary music, stands out even within this range. It definitely ...
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