Tan Dun: Eight Memories in Watercolor & Other Piano Music / van Raat

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
June 10, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Tan Dun
    • PERFORMER
      Ralph Van Raat
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 10, 2022
    • UPC
      747313062171
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8570621
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Missing Moon

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    2. No. 2. Staccato Beans

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    3. No. 3. Herdboy's Song

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    4. No. 4. Blue Nun

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    5. No. 5. Red Wilderness

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    6. No. 6. Ancient Burial

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    7. No. 7. Floating Clouds

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    8. No. 8. Sunrain

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    9. C-A-G-E- (In Memory of John Cage)

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    10. I. The Mask -

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    11. II. After Tonight

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    12. III. Sword Dance

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    13. IV. Only for Love

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    14. Traces (1992 version)

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    15. The Fire

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat

    16. Blue Orchid

      Composer: Tan Dun

      Performer: Ralph van Raat


Tan Dun’s originality has been reflected in worldwide recognition of his music, which draws on both Chinese and Western musical languages. The Eight Memories in Watercolor are deft painterly reflections, while in Trace she balances sound with silence in this evocation of nature. The vibrant drama of Blue Orchid incorporates the opening motif of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. In Film Music Sonata, which here receives its first recording on general release, Tan Dun draws on his score for the film The Banquet. The kaleidoscopic C-A-G-E-, strikingly Chinese in sound, is a tribute to his teacher and spiritual compass, John Cage. The Fire, written for Ralph van Raat, contains some of Tan Dun’s most virtuosic and dramatic piano writing.