Ge Gan-Ru: Chinese Rhapsody

Featuring

José Serebrier
Margaret Leng Tan
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Gan-Ru Ge

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Recording & Production

The Six Pentatonic Tunes for Orchestra were completed for this CD's recording sessions because the combined length of the first two works was a little short.

Performer Biography

José Serebrier, the conductor, is a nine-time Grammy-nominated artist and one of the most recorded classical artists today, once hailed by Leopold Stokowski as "the greatest master of orchestral balance."

Performer Biography

Margaret Leng Tan, the soloist on this recording, is an internationally celebrated artist known for transcending the piano's conventional boundaries and is the world's first professional toy pianist.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ge Gan-ru's creative philosophy combines contemporary Western compositional techniques with his Chinese experience and musical characteristics to create a new musical world.

Historical Context

During Ge Gan-ru's childhood in China, Western music was officially forbidden, and he had to study violin in secret, with his parents ensuring windows were shut and a mute was used.

Composer Biography

Ge Gan-ru, noted as "China's first avant-garde composer" in The New Grove, was born in Shanghai in 1954 and has lived in the United States since 1983.

Composer Biography

While in an agricultural labor camp at age 17, Ge Gan-ru received secret violin and theory lessons from a former concertmaster of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.