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Gan-ru: Fairy Lady Meng Jiang

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Catalogue numberBIS-1779 CD
Release date2013-11-01
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time64:00

“This is a fine orchestra, well recorded. Ms Bezaly is excellent as always…” American Record Guide 05-06/2014;
“...the honest expressivity and exceptional symphonic craft of Ge-Ganru won me over.” Fanfare 07-08/2014;

Born in Shanghai in1954, Ge Gan-ru grew up at a time when Western music was not heard in public, and could only be studied in secret. As the political and cultural atmosphere in China changed, Ge became one of the first students to enrol at the re-opened Shanghai Conservatory. There he was able to acquaint himself with the music of composers such as John Cage, George Crumb and Pierre Boulez, and it was at this time that he earned the designation ‘China’s first avant-garde composer’. Moving to New York in 1983, he continued his studies, with the expressed aim ‘to combine contemporary Western compositional techniques with my Chinese experience and Chinese musical characteristics’. A previous recording on BIS of Ge Gan-ru’s orchestral music impressed reviewers, with the website ClassicsToday.com remarking on the composer’s ‘immediately identifiable, intriguingly personal style’, ‘alternately exciting and ravishing’ and ‘full of warmth and humour’. The present disc combines two works which both proudly display their Chinese roots. The flute concerto Fairy Lady Meng Jiang is inspired by a classic Chinese fairy-tale, set in the 3rd century B.C. at the time of the building of the Great Wall and incorporating an element of magic as well as a dramatic love story with a deeply unhappy ending. The work is dedicated to Sharon Bezaly, the soloist on this recording, who also gave it its first performance together with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León and Enrique Diemecke in March 2009. The same occasion saw the first performance of its companion piece, the orchestral suite Lovers Besieged which the composer developed from an earlier trio for cello, percussion and piano. Again the work is rooted in early Chinese history – in fact just a few years after the events befalling Meng Jiang – and again it is a story of love and death, now played out against a back-drop of war and insurrection during the collapse of the Qin dynasty.
 
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  Composer: Gan-ru, Ge
  Fairy Lady Meng Jiang (2008) 39:28
01 1. Savage Land 09:18 $ 1.95 USD
02 2. Gourd Girl 11:31 $ 2.42 USD
03 3. Abduction 08:22 $ 1.76 USD
04 4. Crying Down the Great Wall 10:17 $ 2.16 USD
 
  Lovers Besieged, orchestral suite (2009) 23:04
05 1. Ambush 05:56 $ 1.25 USD
06 2. Chu Song 11:05 $ 2.33 USD
07 3. Sword Dance 06:03 $ 1.27 USD
 
  Album total 64:00
ComposerGan-ru, Ge
ConductorDiemecke, Enrique Arturo
OrchestraOrquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León
FluteBezaly, Sharon

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