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CLASSICAL AUDIO
MAG358.410 | 3770003584100
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MAGUELONE
COMPOSER: Reynaldo Hahn
ARTIST: Denis Clavier (violin) ·
Fernand Quattrocchi (conductor)
· Dimitris Saroglou (piano) ·
Philharmonique de Lorraine
REYNALDO HAHN
VIOLIN CONCERTOS &
SONATAS
8225845 | 636943584521
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MARCO POLO
COMPOSER: Various
ARTIST: Lee Bing · Gabriel Kwok
LEE BING SINGS ANCIENT &
MODERN CHINESE POEMS
8225846 | 636943584620
1 CD | SRP
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MARCO POLO
COMPOSER: Various
ARTIST: Hong Kong Philharmonic
Orchestra · Varujan Kojian
POPULAR HONG KONG TV &
MOVIE THEMES
8225847 | 636943584729
1 CD | SRP
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MARCO POLO
COMPOSER: Various
ARTIST: The Central Broadcasting
Folk Orchestra · Peng Xiuwen
POPULAR WESTERN
CLASSICS
· Reynaldo Hahn, while born a Venezuelan,
lived in and composed in the style of the
French. He's best known for his composition
of songs, bur wrote a great deal of operas,
incidental music, and chamber works as
well.
· Here, Denis Clavier has chosen to put on
display Hahn's Violin Concerto & Sonata.
Even in these structured classical works,
Hahn's lightness of style is evident. He
wrote once of his composing, "The heavy
and boring are to be avoided at all costs;
the muses do not wear glasses." This
philosophy has made his music accessible
to the musically educated and amateurs
alike.
· Violinist Denis Clavier currently holds the
role of super-soloist with the Orchestre
National de Lorraine, which is also heard
on this release, conducted by Fernand
Quattrocchi.
· The art of poetry has exercised an
immense influence on China during
its various stages of development.
Since the appearance of the Shi
Jing in the Zhou Dynasty, poetry
had developed into a large variety
of forms, with particularly fruitful
results during the Tang, Song and
Yuan dynasties.
·
The present recording consists of
21 Chinese art-songs based on a
wide range of poems from various
periods set by Chinese contemporary
composers.
· Prior to the Chinese language becoming an
official language in 1974, Chinese operas,
later Mandarin pop songs and English pop
songs dominated the music market in
Hong Kong.
· In the 70's, with the rise of television, TV
drama series became very popular. After
the huge success of the first Cantonese TV
theme song The Wedding with Cries and
Laughs sung by Sandra Lang, written by
Hoseph Koo with lyrics by Yip Siu Dak, it
became a trend to attach each of them with
a theme song sung in Cantonese. Most of
them ended up topping the local charts.
· This recording features the theme song of
the most popular TV dramas and movies in
Hong Kong in the 70's and early 80's.
· Western music has a surprisingly
long history in China. Liturgical music
of the Catholic church found its place
in Peking in the period of the Yuen
Dynasty, and, although the ensuing
Ming Dynasty proved less favorable
to this alien intrusion, the Qing
Dynasty, established in the middle of
the 17th century and continuing until
its elimination in the earlier years of
the 20th century, found a place for
the encouragement of Western music
at court.
·
The following period of Western
commercial intrusion into China
also brought contact with the music
of the West, with court officials
instructed to copy the instruments
that accompanied Lord Macartney's
emassy to Peking in 1793.