Petri, Michala (recorder) - Chinese Recorder Concertos

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Leveranstid: Skickas vanligtvis inom 2-5 dagar

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Michala Petri, recorder
Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra
Lan Shui, conductor

Discover the music of four contemporary Chinese composers each of whose works display a distinctive approach to blending eastern and western aesthetic traditions. In the music of classmates Chen Yi and Bright Sheng (both of whom currently reside and teach in America), they wrestled with how to approach the problem of incorporating traditional Chinese material within the largely Western-derived language of modern music. For Sheng, this takes place primarily in terms of utilizing Chinese melodies and subject matter within the context of a 20th century symphonic idiom. In Chen Yi's music, she not only incorporates Chinese melodies into her works, but frequently bases her compositions on ancient Chinese musical theories, abstracting and distilling them into a unique, contemporary musical language. In the case of versatile and prolific mainland composer Tang Jianping, the sky is the limit! Tang freely draws on every available resource from Buddhist chants to Bach Preludes and Fugues, creating accessible and emotionally compelling works that could only have been written by a Chinese. The fourth voice in our fugue, Ma Shuilong is the dean of Taiwanese composers and has the honor of being the first-ever Taiwanese composer to have been performed at New York's Lincoln Center. Ma's music is also characterized by the amphibious quality seen in that of his younger colleagues - namely adapting Chinese content to western forms and idioms in a musically and aesthetically satisfying manner.