Tan Dun - Pipa Concerto / Works by Takemitsu & Hayashi | Onyx ONYX4027

Tan Dun - Pipa Concerto / Works by Takemitsu & Hayashi

Label: Onyx

Cat No: ONYX4027

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 3rd March 2008

Contents

About

A new CD from the Moscow Soloists and their charismatic director Yuri Bashmet. Previous Onyx releases (Symphonies by Shostakovich, Sviridov and Vainberg 4007 - and Stravinsky Apollo/Prokofiev Visions Fugitives 4017) have both won US Grammy nominations!

This disc is their most enterprising so far, and features Yuri Bashmet as violist and violinist as well as director: a Pilgrimage from Russia to the Far East an enterprising mix of cultures and flavours in works from China and Japan.

Tan Dun
is of course well known in the West for “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and is now based in New York. This world premiere recording is for pipa, a 4-stringed ancient Chinese lute-like instrument. Wu Man is its foremost exponent and a prominent soloist as well as leading member of Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road project.  

Takemitsu is of course Japan’s best-known composer. Nostalghia was written in memory of  Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky (and featuring Bashmet on violin!), plus three short film scores, Takemitsu’s favourite genre.

Finally, a substantial addition to the viola concerto repertoire – Hayashi’s Concerto “Elegia” (1995), a highly approachable and yearning score with hints of Janacek and Bartok as well as a distinctive Japanese flavour.  

Track Listing:
Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto*   
1  Andante molto
2. Allegro  
3. Adagio   
4. Allegro vivace

Toru Takemitsu:
Nostalghia (violin & strings)

Toru Takemitsu:
Three Film Scores for Strings
6  Training and Rest (José Torres)  
7  Funeral Music (Black Rain)   
8  Waltz  (Face of Another)  

Hikaru Hayashi: Viola Concerto “Elegia”    
9  I     
10 II     

*world première recording

Artists:
Wu Man - pipa (1-4)
Yuri Bashmet - violin (5), viola (9,10)
Directed by: Yuri Bashmet, Roman Balashov (5,9,10)

Total timing:78.04

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