Chen / Musgrave / Long / Hovhaness: Oriental Landscapes

Featuring

Lan Shui
Evelyn Glennie
Deng Haiqiong
Wang Gui Ying
Zhang Lei
Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Yi Chen
Thea Musgrave
Zhou Long
Alan Hovhaness

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Composer Biography

Chen Yi, a composer featured on this album, began studying the violin at age three but her education was interrupted by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, during which she was sent to build military fortifications.

Performer Biography

Evelyn Glennie, the percussionist on this album, is the world's first full-time solo percussionist and has made a succession of critically acclaimed and highly popular recordings, two of which have been awarded Grammys.

Performer Biography

Evelyn Glennie has commissioned and performed over one hundred new works and travels with two tons of equipment for her extraordinarily busy concert schedule.

Composer Biography

Zhou Long, another composer on this album, also had his musical education curtailed by the Cultural Revolution, during which he worked on a state farm.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Chen Yi aims to combine her conservatory training and folk-song collecting experiences to create music that naturally merges Eastern and Western influences.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Zhou Long compares his integration of Western musical theory into Chinese compositions to the distillation of Buddhist principles into Chinese culture during the Tang dynasty.