Akio Yashiro's Sonate pour piano combines a nine-tone series and a chord to form a twelve-tone row in its first movement, and features Messiaen variations in its third movement.
Performer Biography
Yukie Nagai, the pianist on this album, won the Geneva International Piano Competition in 1977 and received a special prize for the best Debussy interpretation.
Composer Biography
Akio Yashiro, whose sonata is on this album, studied with Nadia Boulanger, T. Aubin, H. Charant, and Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.
Composer Biography
Yuji Takahashi, one of the composers featured, studied composition with dodecaphonist Minao Shibata and Bartókian Roh Ogura, and piano with Kōji Taku, a student of Cortot.
Composer Biography
Toshi Ichiyanagi, another composer on this album, became a dodecaphonist and entered the circle of John Cage at age 25, adopting Cage's philosophy that composition should explore the realm of possibility.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Around 1970, Yuji Takahashi adopted an anti-modernist, anti-capitalist idiom, advocating for Asian communalism and re-evaluating traditional Asian music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Toshi Ichiyanagi's music after 1970 is governed by the aesthetics of contrast and opposition, attempting to express the near-crisis conditions of the modern world.
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