RECENT: Find out about composers from unusual places, including Gerard Schurmann, Giya Kancheli, Nazib Zhiganov and Nodar Gabunia, about singing in cars, and meet Jim Hutton from the RLPO and some of our regular contributors in this 80-minute February 2021 video
Kuan: Memory of Mountain; Hoffman
8.574180 (Naxos, CD)
DDD
NEW RELEASE (23 October 2020)
Playing time: 77'36"
Tracks: 6
Booklet pages: 6
© 2020 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd
Main country of recording: Taiwan
Country of manufacture: Germany
Review received and scheduled for publication
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