Soloists; Koehne Quartet; Third Coast Percussion; Arditti Qt
Release Date: 13 May 2022
Label: Kairos Re ords
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9120010289149
Genres: Classical Contemporary Classical
Description
While a single album can only offer listeners a small aural glimpse of the output for most composers, previous discs devoted to the music of Kui Dong (born1966) have featured very varied programs, often to the point of teasing listeners into pondering at first exposure if the same person created all the music.
The same is true for this current album, perhaps even more so.
Yet repeated listenings to recordings of Kui Dong's seemingly disparate pieces reveal common kinships even though they are often so stylistically contradictory.
Musicians need to move from one part of the performance area to another, creating various sonic clashes in so doing. Perhaps this is somehow an acoustic metaphor for her own personal journey from one side of the world to the other.
Kui Dong's music exists at the intersections between several different cultural traditions as they each had undergone significant transformations.
Tracklisting
Charlotte Seither
Ensemble Musikfabrik, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Austin Wulliman; Ensemble Pamplemouse
L'Itineraire, Leo Margue
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
Hashtag Ensemble
Joel-Francois Durand
Elisabeth Harnik
Ostrava New Orchestra, Owen Underhill, Ostravska Banda, Petr Kotik, Elision Ensemble, Arditti Quartet, Switch~ Ensemble, Jason Thorpe Buchanan
Gavin Bryars
Ilse Eerens, Tomoko Kasai, Mayumi Miyata, Masanori Oishi, Saori Oya, Naoko Yoshino
L'Itineraire, Leo Margue
Hashtag Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
Joel-Francois Durand
Elisabeth Harnik
