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Wenchen QIN (b. 1966) The Cloud River The Light of the Deities Seeking Sound – Pictures of Ling Lun’s Inspiration Poetry of the Land
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Yang Zheng, Sheng • Xinxin Song, Zheng ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Gottfried Rabl
Award-winning composer and educator Wenchen Qin enjoys one of the most distinguished and influential positions in China’s contemporary music scene with works that have garnered worldwide acclaim. Qin’s unique musical language is influenced by his multicultural background, integrating Eastern and Western elements to create profound spiritual spaces. All of these works are infused with literature, mythology and a fascination with nature. The Cloud River revitalises the sheng – an ancient Chinese instrument – with new playing techniques to depict clouds as a source of boundless imagination. With the sheng also playing a leading role, Poetry of the Land ruminates on how the land provides great inspiration. Key feature: This release joins our previous recording of Wenchen Qin ’s music (Naxos 8.570620): ‘The orchestra plays beautifully and the recording has depth, presence, and brilliance’ ( American Record Guide ).
8.579153 Release date: 23 Aug 2024
Companion titles – 21st Century Chinese Classics 8.570620 | 8.570621 | 8.570628 | 8.579157
Click to listen to Seeking Sound – Pictures of Ling Lun’s Inspiration, Dance Suite for Orchestra: V
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INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
Ronald PEARL (b. 1954) Ian KROUSE (b. 1956)
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East Meets West Solo Guitar Works Robert Trent, Guitar
East Meets West offers a series of geographical and musical connections that bind the music of Ian Krouse (“One of the most communicative young composers on the music scene today” – Gramophone ) and Ronald Pearl, whose guitar music is performed worldwide. The album includes the first recording in its 2009 revision of Krouse’s Roderick Usher’s “Phantasmion” , as well as the eloquent tone poem, The Little Match Girl , and his version of a Hassidic song. Pearl’s My Name is Red is inspired by Orhan Pamuk’s novel and reveals a range of Islamic influences. Key feature: Gramophone has called Ian Krouse ‘one of the most communicative and intriguing young composers on the music scene today’. His Symphony No. 5 is on Naxos 8.559907: ‘This orchestral album reflects an important aspect of his work as a public composer with a powerfully eclectic commemorative voice’ ( BBC Music Magazine ).
8.559948 Release date: 23 Aug 2024
Companion titles – Ian Krouse, Composer 8.559907 | 8.559877 | 8.559846-47
Click to listen to PEARL, R.: Impromptu
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Idil Biret Solo Edition, Vol. 13 Franz SCHUBERT (1797–1828) Sonata in A Major • Sonata in F Minor Impromptu in G flat Major Op. 90 No.3 Fantasy in C Major “Wanderer” Idil Biret, Piano
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The two wonderful works that bookend Idil Biret’s Schubert disc, composed just three years apart, might almost be said to represent two different Schuberts. Within tautly compressed formal lines, the “Wanderer” Fantasy achieves a monumentality that has rarely been surpassed or even approached in the solo piano medium. The A-major Sonata is written on a relatively modest scale, yet it must be said that in its own way it is just as masterly a creation as the larger Schubert works that were to follow. Laid out in three movements, it is full of the blandly melodious charm that non-Schubertians (if any such unfortunate persons still exist) usually dislike most about Schubert, but that for the happy majority forms an essential element in the personality of this most poetic of composers. At the same time, this beguiling quality is underpinned by an astonishing harmonic richness and formal subtlety… To a superficial ear, Schubert’s “Wanderer” Fantasy sounds much more like a sonata than many an “official” sonata composed after his time. The paradox, however, is only apparent. When Schubert wrote his Fantasy it was, for all its Allegro-Adagio-Scherzo-Finale pattern, still too far from the traditional forms to be called a sonata. If thirty years later Liszt, for example, could with impunity fix the label on a work that has much less in common with conventional notions of sonata form, it was the “Wanderer” Fantasy itself that constituted the most crucial single step along the new path. Bernard Jacobson
8.571333 Release date: 2 Aug 2024
Companion titles – Previous releases in the Idil Biret Solo Edition 8.571340 | 8.571401-02 8.571310 | 8.571302
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