9120010289149

Kui Dong: Painted Lights

Soloists; Koehne Quartet; Third Coast Percussion; Arditti Qt

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Format: CD

Cat No: KAI0015114

Release Date:  13 May 2022

Label:  Kairos Re ords

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  9120010289149

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary Classical  

  • Description

    While a single album can only offer listeners a small aural glimpse of the output for most composers, previous discs devoted to the music of Kui Dong (born1966) have featured very varied programs, often to the point of teasing listeners into pondering at first exposure if the same person created all the music.

    The same is true for this current album, perhaps even more so.

    Yet repeated listenings to recordings of Kui Dong's seemingly disparate pieces reveal common kinships even though they are often so stylistically contradictory.

    Musicians need to move from one part of the performance area to another, creating various sonic clashes in so doing. Perhaps this is somehow an acoustic metaphor for her own personal journey from one side of the world to the other.

    Kui Dong's music exists at the intersections between several different cultural traditions as they each had undergone significant transformations.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Kui Dong: California Shoreline For Soprano, String Quartet And Prepared Piano
      • 2. Scattered Ladder For Two Marimbas And Four Percussionists
      • 5. Differences Within Oneness For String Quartet
      • 6. Painted Lights For Double Chorus (mixed Chorus And Children’s Chorus)