Lang Lang: Dragon Songs (Plus DVD)

Lang Lang: Dragon Songs (Plus DVD)

Lang Lang: Dragon Songs (Plus DVD)
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Brand: Dragon
Composer: Lang Lang
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-01-09
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
  1. Yellow River Piano Concerto, based on the Yellow River Cantata by Xian Xinghai
  2. LĂ? WENCHENG: Autumn Moon on a Calm Lake
  3. HE LUTING: The Cowherd's Flute
  4. TRADITIONAL: Dialogue in Song
  5. SUN YIQIANG: Dance of Spring
  6. DU MINGXIN: Straw Hat Dance
  7. DENG YUXIAN: Spring Wind
  8. ZHU JIANER: Happy Times
  9. TRADITIONAL: Spring flowers in the Moonlit Night on the River
  10. ZHAO JIPING: Dance from Qiuci, 5th movement from the "Silk Road" Suite
  11. WANG JIANMIN: At Night on the Lake Beneath the Maple Bridge

Description of Lang Lang: Dragon Songs (Plus DVD)

Lang Lang has fascinated audiences all over the globe--now he takes them home to show them "his" China with Dragon Songs, a CD+DVD set with Chinese piano solo, chamber, and orchestral music. Discover the musical culture that forged one of the most acclaimed classical musicians of our day. The CD juxtaposes the Yellow River Concerto, a large-scale, highly virtuosic piano concerto with colorful sound scales, with miniature pieces for solo piano and with chamber pieces that combine the piano with traditional Chinese instruments. Most of the pieces merge tradional Chinese melodies and idioms with the Western classical music--the result is music of astonishing beauty and ease that will strongly appeal to a broad audience. The 130-minute DVD features a full-length documentary offering a fascinating and intimate look behind the scenes of Lang Lang's latest China tour. The DVD also includes a concert of the solo piano and chamber music pieces from the CD filmed during the Dragon Songs recording sessions in Beijing.
This is music of great diversity and charm. Lang Lang returns here to his native China for solo, chamber, and orchestral music. Those expecting great exoticisms will not find them here. We are all aware of how the East influenced the West in music ? Debussy, Ravel, and other composers have picked up the harmonies and sonorities and made them familiar to us. But the music recorded here, all of it composed in the 20th century, is indebted to Western music, and indeed, there is hardly a jarring note to be found. The "exoticisms" are all comfortable. The "Yellow River" Piano Concerto, a work arranged by four composers in 1969 based on a 30-year-old choral cantata that was made up of socialist songs of praise, is a piece of pure late Romanticism and is reminiscent of Tchaikovsky and other late Romantics. One solo piano piece is 97 seconds of pure virtuosic joy ("Happy Times," by Zhu Jianer), and another ("Dance of Spring" by Sun Yiqiang) is a delicate, almost French Impressionist piece. The "Dance from Qiuci" by Zhao Jiping is a duet for piano and guanzi, a double-reed pipe, that will remind listeners of Klezmer music. Each track offers a new delight. Lang Lang's performances, alone and with orchestra and others, are brilliant. A must-have. --Robert Levine

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