Tsung Yeh - Ge Gan-Ru: Shanghai Reminiscences, Butterfly Overture (2015)

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Artist: Tsung Yeh
Title Of Album: Ge Gan-Ru: Shanghai Reminiscences, Butterfly Overture
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Naxos
Genre: Classical
Quality: 320 / FLAC
Total Time: 66:57 min
Total Size: 156 / 362 MB
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Tracklist:

Shanghai Reminiscences
Part I: My Childhood
01. I. Jing An Temple
02. II. Violin Beginner*
03. III. Bicycle Music
04. IV. Pedlar's Tune I (Sharpening Knives)
05. V. Flies Chase A Bald Head
06. VI. Pedlar's Tune II (Water Melon)
07. VII. Pedlar's Tune III (Steamed Pork)
08. VIII. Pedlar's Tune IV (Toasted Gingkoes)
09. IX. Summer Night's Cooling Party
Part II: Cultural Revolution - Awakening
10. I. Growing Violinist*
11. II. Chaos
12. III. Revolutionary March
13. IV. Fantasia*
14. V. Lament
15. VI. Awakening*
16. Butterfly Overture

Born in Shanghai, now resident in Greater New York, Ge Gan-ru is one of China's foremost composers. Very different from his previous exploration of the Western avant-garde, Shanghai Reminiscences is a warm and affecting evocation of "the street scenes and sounds" of Gan-ru's childhood in pre-Cultural Revolution Shanghai, viewed through the lens of his adopted American traditions. Butterfly Overture is the composer's symphonic tribute to a beloved teacher from his Shanghai Conservatory days. International Record Review described Ge Gan-ru's string quartets (8.570603) as "nothing short of contemporary masterpieces."