Across the Sea: Chinese-American Flute Concertos

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There's plenty of trenchant listening alongside the more illustrative soundscapes. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 28th Nov 2011
Catalogue No: BISCD1739
Label: BIS
Length: 71 minutes

Long Zhou: 5 Elements

Work length34:32

$6.00

$9.10

Sharon Bezaly
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

I. Metal (Version for flute and orchestra)

Track length10:54

$1.50

$2.30

II. Wood (Version for flute and orchestra)

Track length6:33

$1.00

$1.50

III. Water (Version for flute and orchestra)

Track length3:55

$1.00

$1.50

IV. Fire (Version for flute and orchestra)

Track length7:52

$1.50

$2.30

V. Earth (Version for flute and orchestra)

Track length5:18

$1.00

$1.50

Sheng: Flute Moon

Work length9:16

$2.00

$3.00

Sharon Bezaly
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

I. Chi Lin's Dance

Track length3:15

$1.00

$1.50

II. Flute Moon

Track length6:01

$1.00

$1.50

Long Zhou: The Deep, Deep Sea

Work length12:08

$2.05

$3.05

Sharon Bezaly
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

Chen Yi: The Golden Flute

Work length15:20

$4.50

$6.80

Sharon Bezaly
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui

I. — (2008 Version)

Track length4:03

$1.00

$1.50

Cadenza (2008 Version)

Track length1:33

$1.00

$1.50

II. — (2008 Version)

Track length2:18

$1.00

$1.50

III. Allegro (2008 Version)

Track length7:26

$1.50

$2.30

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Flautist Sharon Bezaly with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Lan Shui here play the music of three composers who are all resident in the USA, but have their roots across the Pacific Ocean, in China. Philosophical, musical and literary aspects of this Chinese heritage are in evidence in the works recorded here.

Zhou Long has composed his Five Elements inspired by 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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January 2012

There's plenty of trenchant listening alongside the more illustrative soundscapes.

Across the Sea: Chinese-American Flute Concertos

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