Crossings: Contemporary Music for Chinese Instruments

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Release Date: 1st Jul 2017
Catalogue No: TROY1674
Label: Albany
Length: 64 minutes

Walczak: Into the Changing Light

Work length7:39

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Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra

McClure: The Edge of Still

Work length8:35

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Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra

Lei Liang: Lakescape IV

Work length15:07

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Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra

Roy: Behind the Back

Work length13:14

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Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra

Stallmann: Callings

Work length8:11

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Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra

Chen, Shih-Hui: Fantasia on the Theme of Guanglingsan

Work length11:37

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Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra
Chih-Sheng Chen

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Born out of a 2015 music festival at Rice University focusing on classical, contemporary, and cross-cultural music, this recording offers an interesting set of compositions, performed by the Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, that embody 21st century interculturality in distinctive ways. Crossings: Contemporary Music for Chinese Instruments features works by six composers who came into contact with Chinese cultural traditions and responded compositionally to that contact in different ways. Two composers (Shih-Hui Chen and Lei Liang) were born in Taiwan and China. The remaining four composers are American-born and non-Chinese, yet each has had varying degrees of engagement with traditional Chinese music. Thus, the recording offers a glimpse into what has become a global network of composers. The Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra is a group from Taiwan whose members perform new music on Chinese instruments. However, in almost every work, the silk and bamboo instruments of the ensemble are joined by additional sonority offering a rich and varied new expression, which is the essence of this recording.

Crossings: Contemporary Music for Chinese Instruments

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