Xia Guan: Symphony No. 2, ‘Hope’

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Release Date: 29th Apr 2016
Catalogue No: 8570618
Label: Naxos
Series: Chinese Classics
Length: 71 minutes

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Guan Xia: Symphony No. 2, ‘Hope’

Work length43:56

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Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra
En Shao

I. Expectation & Quest. Largo - Allegro - Largo

Track length20:36

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II. Warmth. Adagio

Track length11:31

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$3.85

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III. The Light. Allegro

Track length11:49

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$3.85

$5.25

Guan Xia: Earth Requiem

Work length9:35

$2.00

$2.60

$3.50

Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra
En Shao

I. Gazing at the Stars (Meditation) [Version for Orchestra]

Track length9:35

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Guan Xia: Symphonic Ballade "Sorrowful Dawn"

Work length18:04

$4.00

$5.15

$7.00

Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra
En Shao

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The music of renowned Chinese composer Xia Guan has been received with acclaim in Moscow, Vienna, Tokyo and New York. The solemn first movement of Earth Requiem, a commemoration of the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake, is heard here in an orchestral version that depicts ‘the suffering people who gaze upwards’. The epic Symphony No. 2, ‘Hope’ is a reflection upon the co-existence of good and evil in mankind, agony and hope, in music of considerable breadth and increasing warmth. Heroic drama animates the vividly scored Symphonic Ballade, which draws on the music of Guan’s opera Sorrowful Dawn, the story of China’s War of Liberation following the end of World War Two.

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