Artist: Momo Kodama
Album: Point And Line: Debussy & Hosokawa Etudes
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2017
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:19:20
Total Tracks: 18
Total Size: 1,07 GB

Tracklist:

1-01. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 11. Pour les Arpeges composes (04:53)
1-02. None – Etudes for Piano II. Point And Line (07:01)
1-03. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 3. Pour les Quartes (04:58)
1-04. None – Etudes for Piano III. Calligraphy, Haiku, 1 Line (02:04)
1-05. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 4. Pour les Sixtes (04:18)
1-06. None – Etudes for Piano I. 2 Lines (05:10)
1-07. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 10. Pour les Sonorites opposees (05:33)
1-08. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 2. Pour les Tierces (04:15)
1-09. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 6. Pour les huit doigts (01:49)
1-10. None – Etudes for Piano VI. Lied, Melody (04:51)
1-11. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 1. Pour les cinq doigts (d’apres Monsieur Czerny) (03:18)
1-12. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 12. Pour les Accords (04:31)
1-13. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 8. Pour les Agrements (05:01)
1-14. None – Etudes for Piano IV. Ayatori, Magic By 2 Hands, 3 Lines (09:29)
1-15. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 7. Pour les Degres chromatiques (02:27)
1-16. None – Etudes for Piano V. Anger (03:12)
1-17. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 9. Pour les Notes repetees (03:29)
1-18. None – 12 Etudes, L.136 5. Pour les Octaves (02:53)

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Born in Osaka, educated at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, Momo Kodama is well-placed to approach music from both Eastern and Western vantage points, as she does in this album which interweaves etudes of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Toshio Hosokawa (born 1955).

Both composers have similarly been border-crossers. Debussy, pointing to music of the future, looked to the Orient for inspiration. Hosokawa has combined aspects of Japanese and European tradition in his contemporary compositions. Momo Kodama: “In the music of Toshio Hosokawa I find elements close to Debussy: the freedom of form and tone colour, the sense of poetic design, with a wide range of lyricism and dynamics, between meditation and virtuoso development, between light and shade, between large gestures and minimalist refinement.”

„Point and Line“ is the pianist’s second ECM album and follows the widely-praised ‘La vallée des cloches’, with music of Ravel, Takemitsu and Messiaen, of which American Record Guide noted: “Kodama’s impeccable technique and facility for crystalline sounds makes for a mesmerizing program.”