8.573614-15 [2-CDs]
Music by
SCHOENBERG • SHENG
YEN • TOMMASINI • MARGETIĆ
AKIHO • ORDWAY • PÄRT
SCHOENBERG • SHENG
YEN • TOMMASINI • MARGETIĆ
AKIHO • ORDWAY • PÄRT
Nolan Pearson, Piano
Jing Wang, Zhao Yingna, Violins
Mariel Roberts, Richard Bamping, Cellos
Andrew Ling, Viola • Jiang Xinlai, Double Bass
Megan Sterling, Flute • Michael Wilson, Oboe
Kwan Sheung-fung, Cor anglais • Andrew Simon, Clarinet
Benjamin Moermond, Bassoon • Lin Jiang, Horn
Pius Cheung, Andy Akiho, Percussion
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Bright Sheng, Artistic Director
Jing Wang, Zhao Yingna, Violins
Mariel Roberts, Richard Bamping, Cellos
Andrew Ling, Viola • Jiang Xinlai, Double Bass
Megan Sterling, Flute • Michael Wilson, Oboe
Kwan Sheung-fung, Cor anglais • Andrew Simon, Clarinet
Benjamin Moermond, Bassoon • Lin Jiang, Horn
Pius Cheung, Andy Akiho, Percussion
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
Bright Sheng, Artistic Director
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Listen to an excerpt from Bright Sheng's Deep Red
TRACKLIST:
CD1
Tracks 1-4: Arnold SCHÖENBERG (1874 -1951)
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4
Track 5: Bright SHENG (b.1955)
Deep Red (2014)
CD2
Track 1: Ming-Hsiu YEN (b.1980)
Lego City (IC2011)
Track 2: Matthew TOMMASINI (b.1978)
mountains…seas…buildings…trees…(IC2012)
Track 3: Karlo MARGETIĆ (b.1987)
Svitac (IC2013)
Lego City (IC2011)
Track 2: Matthew TOMMASINI (b.1978)
mountains…seas…buildings…trees…(IC2012)
Track 3: Karlo MARGETIĆ (b.1987)
Svitac (IC2013)
Track 4: Andy AKIHO (b.1979)
21 (acoustic version) (IC2014)
Track 5: Scott ORDWAY (b.1984)
Let There Be Not Darkness But Light (IC2015)
Track 6: Arvo PÄRT (b.1935)
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977)
21 (acoustic version) (IC2014)
Track 5: Scott ORDWAY (b.1984)
Let There Be Not Darkness But Light (IC2015)
Track 6: Arvo PÄRT (b.1935)
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977)
About The Intimacy of Creativity
The Intimacy of Creativity – The Bright Sheng Partnership: Composers Meet Performers in Hong Kong (IC) is a first of its kind, annual Partnership devoted to promoting an intimate dialogue between composers and performers. Distinguished composers, together with selected Composer Fellows from Hong Kong and around the world, present and revise their compositions after in-depth discussions with world-renowned performers during public Open Discussions. The revised compositions are presented at Preview Concerts on the campus of HKUST and World Première Concerts in downtown Hong Kong.
This celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology features an exciting range of music, from the string orchestra version of Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht to a sequence of invigorating contemporary scores. They provide a perfect opportunity to showcase the individual and collective talents of the distinguished principals of the Hong Kong Philharmonic orchestra. Two works, by Ming-Hsiu Yen and Matthew Tommasini, focus on Hong Kong’s landscape, whether majestically natural or manically urban, and the selection ends with Arvo Pärt’s modern classic,
Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten.
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THE INTIMACY OF CREATIVITY
THE INTIMACY OF CREATIVITY
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About Bright Sheng
Bright Sheng was born on December 6, 1955, in Shanghai, China, and moved to New York in l982. He was the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award Winner in 2001. He is currently the Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor at University of Michigan, and Y. K. Pao Distinguished Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies at HKUST.
His music ranges from dramatic to lyrical and is strongly influenced by the folk and classical music tradition from eastern and central Asia. Since 2000, he has been studying and researching the music phenomenon of the Silk Road culture. And he also has served as the Artistic Advisor to Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project Inc.
As a conductor and pianist, he has performed with, in the U.S., the San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Seattle Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic in Russia, Dortmund Philharmonic in Germany, China National Symphony, among others; and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center.
His music ranges from dramatic to lyrical and is strongly influenced by the folk and classical music tradition from eastern and central Asia. Since 2000, he has been studying and researching the music phenomenon of the Silk Road culture. And he also has served as the Artistic Advisor to Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project Inc.
As a conductor and pianist, he has performed with, in the U.S., the San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Seattle Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic in Russia, Dortmund Philharmonic in Germany, China National Symphony, among others; and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center.
© Cheung Chi-wai/HK Phil
About the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is recognised as Asia’s foremost classical orchestra. The Orchestra presents over 150 concerts within a 44-week season and attracts more than 200,000 music lovers annually.
Jaap van Zweden, one of today’s most sought-after conductors, is the Orchestra’s Music Director, a position he has held since the 2012/13 concert season. Maestro van Zweden was recently announced as the next Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. This appointment will not affect his tenure with the HK Phil; his commitment to the HK Phil extends at least to the summer of 2019.
Under Maestro van Zweden, the HK Phil is undertaking a variety of initiatives including a four-year project to perform and record the complete Ring of the Nibelung (Richard Wagner). The Orchestra is in year two of this four-year journey, performing one opera each year in concert. The performances are being recorded live for the Naxos label and mark the first performances by a Hong Kong or mainland Chinese orchestra of the entire Ring cycle.
Jaap van Zweden, one of today’s most sought-after conductors, is the Orchestra’s Music Director, a position he has held since the 2012/13 concert season. Maestro van Zweden was recently announced as the next Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. This appointment will not affect his tenure with the HK Phil; his commitment to the HK Phil extends at least to the summer of 2019.
Under Maestro van Zweden, the HK Phil is undertaking a variety of initiatives including a four-year project to perform and record the complete Ring of the Nibelung (Richard Wagner). The Orchestra is in year two of this four-year journey, performing one opera each year in concert. The performances are being recorded live for the Naxos label and mark the first performances by a Hong Kong or mainland Chinese orchestra of the entire Ring cycle.
8.555866
“Bright Sheng…His highly accessible music has an individual voice and a vividly unpredictable orchestral palette. The spectacular China Dreams was composed between folk music. Fanfare, the second of the four movements, a brilliant toccata well laced with percussion, is immediately arresting.”
– Penguin Guide
8.570601
“The piece’s exotica is thoroughly Bartokian, and should make a welcome addition to the (Western) clarinet trio repertoire. All performances, and engineering, are exemplary….”
– American Record Guide
8.559610
“…Red Silk Dance is essentially a piano fantasia, very attractive and rhythmic, an attempt at a not-too literal portrayal of the Silk Road and all of its many peopled varieties….”
– Audiophile Audition
8.570610
“Bright Sheng is simply the best living composer...... Three major works in outstanding performances are here to prove this irrefutably. ”
– Pizzicato
