I.
"Wenji" - Eighteen Songs
of the Nomad Flute"
Prologue: Story
Teller's Song
King's Song
Qin Song
Scene 4: Qin Burial
Scene 8: Qin/Passion
Libretto: Xu Ying
English Translation: Diana Liao
Wenji - Li Xiuying, soprano
King Zuoxian - Ethan Herschenfeld, bass
Story Teller/Han Envoy/Cai Yong - Zhou Long,
Beijing opera performer
Orchestra:
Liu Qichao (Di/Suona), Jackie Leclair (Oboe/English Horn),
Bohdan Hilash
(Clarinets), Min Xiao Fen (Pipa), Jung-ping Yuan (Guqin),
Danny Tunick (Percussions), Wang Guowei (Erhu/Zhonghu), Alexandra
MacKenzie (Cello) Bun-Ching Lam, Conductor
Recorded at the Asia Society, February 2002.
II.
"Omi Hakkei"
movt. 1 - Night
Rain at Karasaki
movt. 6 - Sails Returning
to Yabase
Wang Guowei (erhu/Zhonghu), Gao Renyang (dizi/xiao), Deng
Haiqiong (Zheng), Frank Foerster (Viola), Wendy Stern (Flute),
Vicctora Drake (harp), Bun-Ching Lam, Conductor
Live recording of Premiere on November 11, 2000 at Merkin
Concert Hall, New York.
III.
"Nachtgesänge"
movt. 3 - Lebensalter
Text: Friedrich Hölderlin
Susanne Serfling, soprano; Susan Brandt-Ferguson (Baritone
sax), Roger Schmidt (Trombone), Paul Cox (Marimba), Masayo
Ishigure (koto)
Live Recording at the CrossSound Festival, September
2000.
IV.
"Six Phenomena for Piano"
movt. 3 - Shadow
movt. 6 - Lightning
Live recording of pianist Dimitri Vassilkis on October 26, 2006
at the North River Series, Greenwich House Music School, New York
V. "The Journey"
sect. 5 - Interlude
2
sect. 6 - Day &
Night
Text: Ruan Ji
The Song Company (Australia)
Roland Peelman, Artistic Director
Ruth Kilpatrick, soprano
Nicole Thomson, soprano
Jo Burton, alto
Richard Black, tenor
Mark Donnelly, baritone
Clive Birch, bass
Chinese Music Virtuosi (Hong Kong)
Chu Sui-wai (Di/xiao), Loo Sze-wang (sheng), Lam Yu (pipa),
Ng Hiu-hung (zheng), Wong Lok-ting (huqin), Yang Chun-wei
(qin)
Live Recording of Premiere, October 26, 2002, Sydney
Conservatorium of Music, Australia. The
Song Company.
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VI.
"Three Haikei" - after Basho
movts. 2 & 3 - Sound
of the Cicada
and Autumn Wind
Jeremias Schwartz (Tenor Recorder), Mikiko Goto (Bass Koto)
Live recording of Premiere, October 24, 2003, at the
Opernhaus, Nurenberg, Germany.
VII.
"Atlas"
Atlas
Performed by the Atlas Ensemble: di, ney, flute, suona, duduk,
English horn, sheng, bass clarient, liuqin, pipa, tar, ud,
guitar, zheng, santur, kanun, harp, 3 percussionists, erhu,
kamanche, kemence, violin, viola, cello & contrabass
Ed Spanjaard, conductor
Commissoned by the Holland Festival for the Atlas Ensemble.
Live recording of premiere on June 27, 2004, at the Concertgebouw,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
VIII.
"Lotosträume (2009)"
Lotosträume
Text by Heinrich Heine for baritone and harp
Thomas Buckner, baritone
Isabelle Courret, harp
IX.
"Autumn Sound"
I. Sheng Sheng Man
Autumn Sound
Text by Li Ching-Ch'ao for soprano & flute
Hsin Yi Lin, soprano
X.
"Canzoniere CXXVI"
Canzoniere CXXVI
Text: Francesco Petrarca
Live recording on May 5, 2016 at the Interpretation Concert, Rolette, Brooklyn.
Performed by Thomas Buckner, baritone, Michel Gentile, flute, Adam Cockerham, theorbo.
XI.
"Comme Les Nuage"
Comme Les Nuage
Live recording on November 6, 2016 at the concert "Musique et Poésie", Cité International des Arts, Paris.
Performed by Trio K/D/M
Anthony Millet - Accordion
Gilles Durot, Victor Hanna - Percussion
XII.
"L’Air du Temps"
L’Air du Temps
Live recording on November 15, 2018, at the Interpretation Concert at Roulette, Brooklyn.
Performed by Tana Quartet
Antoine Maisonhaute, Ivan Lebrun, violins;
Maxime Desert, viola; Jeanne Maisonhaute, cello.
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