Kuan: Memory of Mountain; Hoffman
8.574180 (Naxos, CD)
DDD
NEW RELEASE (23 October 2020)
Playing time: 77'36"
Tracks: 6
Booklet pages: 6
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Main country of recording: Taiwan
Country of manufacture: Germany
Reviewer: Ona Jarmalavičiūtė
Review of Kuan: Memory of Mountain; Hoffman published on 6 May 2021
Listen: Nai-Chung Kuan: The Train in the Mountain Forest (Memory of Mountain) (track 2, 0:00-0:55)
Cho-Liang Lin, violin (tracks 1-3 and 5-6)
Taipei Chinese Orchestra
Li-Pin Cheng, conductor
Nai-Chung Kuan (born 1939):
Memory of Mountain (1991) (version for violin and Chinese orchestra, arranged 2016)
1 The Sacred Tree in the Fog
2 The Train in the Mountain Forest
3 Celebrating a Good Harvest Year
Joel Hoffman (born 1935):
4 Nautilus Symmetry (2018)
Violin Concerto No 2, 'Snow in Spring' (2018)
5 Andante
6 Allegro
Recorded 1-3 July 2019 at the Performing Arts Center Concert Hall, Taipei National University of the Arts (tracks 4-6) and 16-17 September 2019 at Kong Hsue Sheh (KHS) Hall (tracks 1-3), Taipei, Taiwan
First recordings