Jo Kondo
Homo Audiens (Book)
Jo Kondo – one of Japan’s most celebrated living composers – sets out his conception of music as a ‘shared object of listening’, an ultimately hopeful vision of music as a purposeless – non-instrumentalised – activity that brings together composers, performers, and audiences as equal partners in the shared creativity of listening. At once an exploration and critique of the aesthetics of absolute music from German Romanticism to the present day as well as an argument for diversity in both interpr…
Hagoromo
** 2021 Stock ** CP² Recordings presents Jo Kondo: Hagoromo. Performed By Teresa Shaw, Mezzo-soprano; Tomoko Shiota, Narrator; London Sinfonietta; Paul Zukofsky, Conductor. Written under commission from the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and premiered there June 13, 1994. Publisher: University of York Music Press (U.K.) Recorded March 25, 2002 at Abbey Road Studio 2, London, England. Produced and engineered by Paul Zinman. Assistant engineers: Roland Heap, Chris Clark. Edited, mixed and mastered by…
Satoko Inoue Presents Jo Kondo's New Works For Piano
The second album of piano works from Japanese composer Jo Kondo performed by pianist Satoko Inoue--a noted interpreter of solo works by Feldman, Ferrari, and Cage--here presenting all of Kondo's works for solo piano written from 2001 to 2012, alongside two early works from 1975, exploring a wealth of harmonic, rhythmic, and conceptual ideas from a diversity of projects.