Across The Sea: Chinese-American Flute Concertos
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BISCD1739
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 28th November 2011
Contents
Artists
Sharon Bezaly (flute)Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Lan ShuiWorks
Golden FluteFlute Moon
Elements (5)
The Deep, Deep Sea
Artists
Sharon Bezaly (flute)Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Lan ShuiAbout
Zhou Long composed his Five Elements with inspiration from the traditional Chinese concept of the five ‘elemental energies’ (wu xing): metal, wood, water, fire and earth. For The Deep, Deep Sea, his shorter, single-movement work, Zhou Long found the title in a poem by the Chinese poet Li Bai (701–762 A.D.), exploring the metaphor of a sea voyage under difficult circumstances.
A later poet, Jiang Kui of the Song Dynasty, has provided Bright Sheng with the inspiration for the second movement of his two-movement work Flute Moon, while the first movement, entitled Chi-Lin’s Dance, features the mythical Chinese unicorn.
The closing work on the disc is Chen Yi’s The Golden Flute, a concerto in three movements, in which the stated aim of the composer has been ‘to let a Western flute speak in the language of Chinese wind instruments, such as the dizi made from bamboo and the xun made from clay.’
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