Release Date: 28 April 2016
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313061877
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Guan
Description
The music of renowned Chinese composer Xia Guan has been received with acclaim in Moscow, Vienna, Tokyo and New York. The solemn first movement of Earth Requiem, a commemoration of the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake, is heard here in an orchestral version that depicts 'the suffering people who gaze upwards'. The epic Symphony No. 2, 'Hope' is a reflection upon the co-existence of good and evil in mankind, agony and hope, in music of considerable breadth and increasing warmth. Heroic drama animates the vividly scored Symphonic Ballade, which draws on the music of Guan's opera Sorrowful Dawn, the story of China's War of Liberation following the end of World War Two.
Tracklisting
Peter Otto; Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero
Dariia Lytvishko
Michael Kaykov
Danish Chamber Orchestra; Adam Fischer
DUO Goni-Perretta
Wenting Shi
Stuttgar
Schilli
Westminster Choir
Westminster Choir & Joseph Flummerfelt
Mariusz Szypura
Andre Rieu
Paul Griffiths; Jack Quartet
Late Aster
Andras Schiff
Geneva Lewis; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Gemma New
