Crossings: Contemporary Music for Chinese Instruments
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Classical, contemporary, cross-cultural introducing the Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra.

Born out of a 2015 music festival at Rice University focusing on classical, contemporary, and cross-cultural music, this recording offers an interesting set of compositions, performed by the Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, that embody 21st century interculturality in distinctive ways. Crossings: Contemporary Music for Chinese Instruments features works by six composers who came into contact with Chinese cultural traditions and responded compositionally to that contact in different ways. Two composers (Shih-Hui Chen and Lei Liang) were born in Taiwan and China. The remaining four composers are American-born and non-Chinese, yet each has had varying degrees of engagement with traditional Chinese music. Thus, the recording offers a glimpse into what has become a global network of composers. The Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra is a group from Taiwan whose members perform new music on Chinese instruments. However, in almost every work, the silk and bamboo instruments of the ensemble are joined by additional sonority offering a rich and varied new expression, which is the essence of this recording.
Contents:
Christopher Walczak, composer
Into the Changing Light
Ling-Tzu Chang, sheng; Hsin-Fang Hsu, zheng; Eric Lenz, cello; Christopher Butler, percussion

Robert McClure, composer
the edge of still
Fang-Pin Lin, dizi; Ling-Tzu Chang, sheng; electronics

Lei Liang, composer
Lakescape IV
Fang-Pin Lin, dizi; Ling-Tzu Chang, sheng; Ching-Ling Huang, yangqin; Ying-Chun Chen, pipa; Cheng-Ying Chuang, zhongruan; Chi-Yuan Chung, zhongruan; Hsin-Fang Hus, zheng

Timothy Roy, composer
Behind the Back
Ying-Chun Chen, pipa; electronics

Kurt Stallmann, composer
Callings
Yu-Hsiu Liu, erhu; electronics

Shih-Hui Chen, composer
Fantasia on the Theme of Guanglingsan
Hsin-Fang Hsu, zheng; The Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra; Chih-Sheng Chen, conductor

Review:
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