The Butterfly Lovers

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Release Date: 29th Jun 2015
Catalogue No: BIS2104
Label: BIS
Length: 63 minutes

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Kreisler: Tambourin chinois, Op. 3 (Arr. for Violin & Chinese Orchestra)

Work length3:42

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Si-Qing Lu
Taipei Chinese Orchestra
Yiu-kwong Chung

Wieniawski: Légende, Op. 17 (Arr. for Violin & Chinese Orchestra)

Work length7:07

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$2.30

Si-Qing Lu
Taipei Chinese Orchestra
Yiu-kwong Chung

Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 (Arr. for Violin & Chinese Orchestra)

Work length8:42

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$2.30

Si-Qing Lu
Taipei Chinese Orchestra
Yiu-kwong Chung

Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42, TH 116: No. 3, Mélodie (Arr. for Violin & Chinese Orchestra)

Work length3:47

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Si-Qing Lu
Taipei Chinese Orchestra
Yiu-kwong Chung

trad.: Sunshine on Taxkorgan (Arr. for Violin & Chinese Orchestra)

Work length6:48

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Si-Qing Lu
Taipei Chinese Orchestra
Yiu-kwong Chung

Sicong Ma: Inner Mongolia Suite, Op. 9 "Suiyuan": II. Nostalgia (Arr. for Violin & Chinese Orchestra)

Work length5:47

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Si-Qing Lu
Taipei Chinese Orchestra
Yiu-kwong Chung

Zhanhao He, Gang Chen: The Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto (Arr. for Violin & Chinese Orchestra)

Work length27:16

$5.10

$7.60

Si-Qing Lu
Taipei Chinese Orchestra
Yiu-kwong Chung

Adagio cantabile "Falling in Love"

Track length11:00

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Più mosso "Defiance"

Track length11:05

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Andante cantabile "Transformation"

Track length5:11

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With an unparalleled potential for expressivity as well as for virtuoso display, the violin is one of the Western instruments that have been most warmly embraced by non-Western musical cultures. One example of this is The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, one of the best-loved classical compositions in China, and probably the Chinese work that is most often performed in Western concert halls. In China, the solo part is often transcribed for one of the traditional virtuoso instruments such as the erhu, but on the present recording it is instead the orchestral part that has been arranged for Chinese traditional orchestra, the eminent violinist Lu Siqing performing the concerto with the support of the Taipei Chinese Orchestra conducted by Chung Yiu-Kwong. The 25-minute concerto forms the grand finale of a programme which mixes Western and Chinese violin favourites, beginning most appropriately with Fritz Kreisler's Tambourin Chinois, but also taking in Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen and Tchaikovsky's Mélodie, all in arrangements made especially for this recording. The disc forms the sixth instalment in a series which features Western solo instruments against the thrilling soundscapes of the Chinese traditional orchestra. Reviewing previous discs, critics have been bowled over by an orchestra capable of 'evoking delicate playfulness, high drama, or the tranquillity of a misty Chinese valley with equal atmosphere' (Classic FM Magazine) and creating 'sounds that are mysterious, biting, intoxicating, and darned close to delirious' (Fanfare).

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