Asian Music for String Quartet

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 13, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GAO TAKEMITSU ZHOU TAN UNG
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      New Zealand String Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      NEW ZEALAND STRING QUARTET
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 13, 2012
    • UPC
      747313248872
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572488
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Song of the Ch'in

      Composer: Long Zhou

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    2. Spiral III

      Composer: Chinary Ung

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    3. Bright Light and Cloud Shadows

      Composer: Ping Gao

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    4. A Way a Lone

      Composer: Tōru Takemitsu

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    5. No. 1. Peking Opera

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    6. No. 2. Shadows

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    7. No. 3. Pink Actress

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    8. No. 4. Black Dance

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    9. No. 5. Zen

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    10. No. 6. Drum and Gong

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    11. No. 7. Cloudiness

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet

    12. No. 8. Red Sona

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Ensemble: New Zealand String Quartet


This programme brings together aesthetic and musical elements of East and West. Zhou Long captures the essence of the Chinese plucked ch'in and Cambodian aesthetics are preserved in Chinary Ung's expressive Spiral III. Tan Dun's Eight Colors combines the exotic timbres of Peking Opera with Second Viennese School tonalities. Gao Ping's Bright Light and Cloud Shadows has been admired for it's 'long-breathed brush strokes' (Washington Post). Taking it's inspiration from James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake Toru Takemitsu's beautifully crafted a Way a Lone evokes a shimmering sound world.