Ye: Winter

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The orchestral playing in all five works is splendidly committed and the recording throughout is superb. An outstanding release. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2021

Release Date: 30th Jul 2021
Catalogue No: BIS2113
Label: BIS
Length: 61 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

October 2021

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Ye: The Song of Sorrow and Gratification, Op. 67

Work length16:59

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Shenyang (bass-baritone)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Gilbert Varga

I. Thoughts on a Steamboat

Track length4:37

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II. The Fifth of April in Tianjin

Track length4:27

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$3.05

III. Xiaolan Pavilion Revisited

Track length3:23

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IV. The Evening of the Seventh of July

Track length4:32

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Ye: December Chrysanthemum, Op. 52b

Work length8:30

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$1.50

Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
José Serebrier

Ye: Winter

Work length11:51

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra
José Serebrier

Ye: The Brilliance of Western Liang, Op. 16

Work length16:14

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$1.50

Wei Lu (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Gilbert Varga

Ye: Starry Sky, Op. 56

Work length7:30

$1.00

$1.50

Noriko Ogawa (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
José Serebrier

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‘As intriguing as it is beguiling’ was how the ‘east-meets-west soundworld’ of Xiaogang Ye was described in the BBC Music Magazine on the release of a previous disc of his orchestral works in 2016. On that occasion Ye’s music was championed by José Serebrier, who returns here, sharing the task with Gilbert Varga. Between them they conduct the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and four international soloists in five works which highlight the beginning of Ye’s career as well as his more recent works. The Brilliance of Western Liang was written in 1983, during Ye’s time as a student at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and is named after a fifth-century kingdom in northwest China. Five years later, Ye wrote his Op. 28, Winter for orchestra, shortly after the he had gone to stay in the U.S.A. A wintry theme returns in December Chrysanthemum (2006), composed in memory of Ye’s daughter Nini, who passed away as an infant. Two years later, Ye was given the prestigious task of writing a work for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summer Olympics. His Starry Sky for piano, chorus and orchestra, was performed for a worldwide audience with Lang Lang at the piano. The most recent work on the disc is The Song of Sorrow and Gratification (2012), a cycle of four orchestral songs dedicated to the bass-baritone Shenyang who also performs them here.

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October 2021

The orchestral playing in all five works is splendidly committed and the recording throughout is superb. An outstanding release.

Ye: Winter

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