Sun Xiaodan - Jiang Wenye: Piano Works (2023) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Formosan Dance, Op. 1a
02. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 1, Allegro animato alla marcia Tender Leaves
03. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 2, Lento tranquillo
04. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 3, Canto dormiento
05. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 4, Allegretto grazioso, quasi allegro The Peddler's Reed Flute
06. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 5, Adagio misterioso
07. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 6, Allegro feroce
08. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 7, Andante sostenuto Epitaph
09. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 8, Allegro ma non troppo
10. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 9, Lento rubato Unforgettable
11. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 10, Allegretto, sempre legato
12. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 11, Lento fatigamente Erhu in the Afternoon
13. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 12, Prestissimo tumultuoso
14. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 13, Andate cantabile
15. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 14, Allegretto leggiero
16. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 15, Allegro, sempre staccato Pipa at Midnight
17. 16 Bagatelles, Op. 8 No. 16, Largo maestoso The South Gate of Peking
18. Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 39 Splendors South of the Yangtze River
19. Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 54 Carnival I. Allegro animato
20. Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 54 Carnival II. Andante molto tranquillo
21. Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 54 Carnival III. Rondo
22. 12 Poems on Folk Festivals, Op. 53 (Excerpts) No. 1, Lantern Festival
23. 12 Poems on Folk Festivals, Op. 53 (Excerpts) No. 7, Assignation on Chinese Valentin's Day
24. 12 Poems on Folk Festivals, Op. 53 (Excerpts) No. 8, Reveling in the Countryside
25. 12 Poems on Folk Festivals, Op. 53 (Excerpts) No. 9, Celebrating a Bumper Crop
26. 12 Poems on Folk Festivals, Op. 53 (Excerpts) No. 10, Late Autumn Eve
27. 12 Poems on Folk Festivals, Op. 53 (Excerpts) No. 12, Spring Festival Lion Dance

JIANG Wenye is a composer of great importance who enjoys an international reputation in the Chinese modern history of music. He is also a representative composer of the Central Conservatory of Music, China, for his great profusion and wide variety of compositions. Among others, his piano music not only represents his focused field of creation, but also embodies his music thought and stylistic vagary. What are presented in this specialized album are the works carefully selected by Professor SUN Xiaodan, who did in-depth studies into JIANG’s materials and works. What is noteworthy here is that, on the very occasion of the 110th anniversary of the birth of JIANG, recording such a specialized album of his piano works not only has a special historic significance, but is also very important to the academic world. The fact of the matter is that, although The Complete Works of JIANG Wenye has been published for years, yet it is still for the first time that the works of such a composer of international influence have been seriously recorded in the Chinese Mainland.

This album contains his representative piano works at his early, middle and late periods of time, systematically and completely manifests the whole configuration of his works. Publication of such a collection no doubt bears great historical significance and realistic relevance to the continuing and inheriting of his artistic thought. The same holds for piano performers and musicologists to grasp the Chinese historical development of piano music; to research the Chinese genre of piano music, and the nationalization of Chinese piano music.

Professor SUN Xiaodan is a very promising young teacher from the Central Conservatory of Music; she is the winner of the silver prize at the “Gold Bell Award”, the most prestigious music competition organized by the Chinese government. She perseveres in music education and has long demonstrated her stellar gift in the sphere of piano playing. She performs with superb skills, delicate expressions with energy and charm, as well as passion and virtuosity. And as such, she is indeed the proper pianist to display the marvelous aspects of JIANG’s piano music. After all, the legacy of the Chinese piano music needs more talented artists to inherit. Undoubtedly, what Professor SUN meticulously selected and enthusiastically helped get published is, and will be, of great contribution to the popularization of Chinese piano music.

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