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Nai-Chung Kuan & Joel Hoffman: Chinese Orchestral Works

10/23/2020, 6 Tracks, 1:17:34

Featuring

  • Cho-Liang Lin
  • Li-Pin Cheng
  • Taipei Chinese Orchestra
  • Nai-Chung Kuan
  • Joel Hoffman

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Joel Hoffman's aim in composing for Chinese orchestra is not to create 'Chinese music' or 'Western music for Chinese instruments,' but to find his own voice within these instruments.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Joel Hoffman's music draws from diverse sources like Eastern European folk music, Chinese traditional music, and American bebop, characterized by lyricism and rhythmic vitality.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Nai-Chung Kuan, born in Beijing in 1939, has held numerous prestigious positions, including conductor of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and has composed over a hundred works.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

Cho-Liang Lin performs on a 1715 'Titian' Stradivarius and a 2000 Samuel Zygmuntowicz violin for this recording.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Joel Hoffman, a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, is a professor of composition at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing for four months each year.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Cho-Liang Lin, the violinist on this recording, is an internationally renowned performer, a former 'Instrumentalist of the Year' by Musical America magazine, and a faculty member at The Juilliard School.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Taipei Chinese Orchestra (TCO), founded in 1979, is the first professional Chinese orchestra in Taiwan and has earned an international reputation for its innovative programming.

Source: Booklet

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