Qigang Chen: Er Huang, Enchantements oubliés & Un temps disparu Chun-Chieh Yen

• 1 Er Huang 17:22
• 2 Enchantements oublies 26:31
• 3 Un temps disparu 26:04
• Total Runtime 01:09:57

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Qigang Chen is one of the most prominent Chinese composers working today, whose music has been commissioned and performed by leading orchestras and musicians around the world. Er Huang, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, is based on a number of melodies from Peking operas, nostalgically recollected, while the unusual structure of Enchantements oubliés explores a journey into the essence of beauty. Un temps disparu features the erhu, a two-stringed Chinese fiddle, and makes use of an ancient Chinese melody called Three Variations on the Plum Blossom.

„Olivier Messiaen described his last pupil, Qigang Chen, as a ‘very great talent who has a total assimilation of Chinese thinking within European musical concepts’. Having now spent most of his life in the Western world where he has produced major orchestral scores to commissions from both sides of the Atlantic, it is fascinating to hear how he has totally married Messiaen’s special musical influences into his scores. Now aged sixty-five, the present release covers music written over the last sixteen years, all receiving their world premiere recording. He writes in a purely tonal style, looking to create melody, Er Huang uses those that were once popular in Peking operas, works that are now unthinkably lost in his homeland to the all pervasive pop culture. It is scored for piano and orchestra, the mood not a million miles away from the era of Hollywood film ‘concertos’. Enchantements oubiles, for strings, harp, piano, celesta, timpani and percussion, largely shakes off his birthplace, the work being one of sumptuous sounds in a creative process that he describes as ‘seemingly taking him where it wanted’. I can imagine that, as we pass through vistas each as alluring as the previous one, the work ending in peaceful sleep. Un temps disparu is a version for the two-string Chinese fiddle, the erhu, of a previous work for cello and orchestra, the composer adding, in his programme notes, that the change of instrument would face the soloist with virtuoso demands. As its title suggests, it is a look back at times that are no more, and ending on a note of sadness. To the innocent ear you would think of it as a Western violin, the world famous virtuoso, Jiemin Yan, producing some very special and beautiful sounds. Throughout the disc the Taiwan Philharmonic is largely called upon to provide slow moving appealing sounds and they fulfil that role perfectly in a recording quality that falls gratifyingly on the ear.“ (David’s Review Corner)

Chun-Chieh Yen, piano
Jiemin Yan, Erhu
Taiwan Philharmonic
Shao-Chia Lü, conductor

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