Chen Yi
The Music of Chen Yi
NA090

The Women's Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta, conductor; Chanticleer; Liu Wei-shan, guzheng; Zhao Yang-qin, yangqin; Chen Jie-bing, erhu; Min Xiao-fen, pipa

... brilliant vitality with which Chen Yi dresses the strains of Chinese music in Western orchestral garb.

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--San Francisco Chronicle

The modern society is a great network of complex latitudes and attitudes, everything exists in equal rights under different cultures, environments and conditions. They keep changing at every moment and interact with the others, so that each experience that we come across can become the source and exciting medium of our creation. As to the music composition, it reflects the precipitation of a composer's cultural and psychological construct. A serious composer should learn to choose and adjust the yardstick, to establish some relatively stable principles on which he or she can base the creation. Regarding my composition style, I believe that language can be translated into music. Since I speak out naturally in my mother tongue, in my music there is Chinese blood, Chinese philosophy and customs. However, music is a universal language, I hope to get the essence of both Eastern and Western cultures and write more compositions that embody my temperament and spirit of this brave new epoch.

--Chen Yi

A native of Guangzhou, China, and a graduate of the Central Conservatory of Beijing, Ms. Chen came to the United States in 1986 and has become one of the most important composers of her generation.

Track List

1. Duo Ye No. 2 8:08
2. Symphony No. 2 18:09
3. Ge Xu (Antiphony) 7:56

Chinese Cantata
4. First Movement: Pan Gu Creates Heaven and Earth 9:41
5. Second Movement: Nu Wa Creates Human Beings 10:23
6. Third Movement: Weaving Maid and Cowherd 8:26
7. Song of Weaving Maid and Cowherd 5:35

Total: 69:08

$15.00

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