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JOJI YUASA
“ON THE KEYBOARD - PIANO
WORKS OF JOJI YUASA” CD
OVERVIEW
The first recording of the complete works for solo piano.
“Among all the kinds of instruments, I am particularly fond of the
piano. I have been fascinated with this instrument and especially to
the sonority from its massive reverberant body.” - Joji Yuasa
“His music is hard to define at all”
New York Times
JOJI YUASA has been actively engaged in a wide range of musical
composition including orchestral, choral and chamber music, music
for theatre and intermedia, and electronic and computer music.
Yuasa has won numerous commissions for his works from such
institutions as the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Saarland Radio
Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan
Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Canada Council,
Suntory Music Foundation, IRCAM and the National Endowment for
the Arts.
Artist: Joji Yuasa
Title: On The Keyboard - Piano Works of
Joji Yuasa
Cat# AUREC0501-1
Format: CD
Price: $6.99 Distro/$7.49 Store
Street Date: Available Now
Barcode: 649783050125
Label: Lens Records
Ronald Squibbs was born in Connecticut in 1962. He began studying
the piano with Elizabeth Mason Ginnel (a descendent of Lowell
Mason) at the age of eight. Further piano studies were with Richard
Gregor at the Westport School of Music and Donald Currier at Yale. He
earned a Ph.D. in music theory from Yale in 1996 and taught at Georgia
State University in Atlanta from 1997 until 2002. He is currently
Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Connecticut at
Storrs. His scholarly and performance interests are focused on the
music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He has performed the
music of Yuasa, Xenakis, Rudhyar and others in recitals and lecturerecitals and has presented his research at conferences in the United
States and Europe. His articles on the music of Xenakis have appeared
in Perspectives of New Music, Contemporary Music Review, and in the
book of essays Présences de Iannis Xenakis.
RELEASE INFORMATION
Genre: Modern Classical
TRACKLIST:
Two Pastorales (1952)
Pastorale A: Largo deciso
Pastorale B: Moderato; Animato
3-5 Three Score-Set (1953)
1. Prelude: Andante nobilmente
2. Chorale: Adagio religioso
3. Finale: Allegro spiritoso
6
Serenade: Chant pour “Do” (1954)
7
Cosmos Haptic (1957)
8-10 Projection Topologic (1959)
Projection 1
Projection 2
Projection 3
11
On the Keyboard (1972)
12
Cosmos Haptic II “Transfiguration” (1986)
13
Subliminal Hey J. (1990)
14
Melodies (1997)
1-2
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