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2024-03-15 16:06:00
Crouching composer, hidden dragon
My post describing how classical music has many Buddhist tendencies continues to reach a gratifyingly wide audience. So it is now time to confront the elephant in the shrine room - Tan Dun's Buddha Passion. Tan Dun is best-known for his soundtrack for Ang Lee's movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was recorded at the ShAnghai Radio, Film And TV Bureau Technical Center in 1999. Born in 1957 in the central Chinese district of Hunan, the son of a military officer in the People's Liberation Army, and he studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 1986 Tan Dun moved to New York City but retained strong links with China: his Symphony 1997 was commissioned for the reunification of Hong Kong with China.The Buddha Passion was inspired by Tan Dun's visit to the ancient Mogao Caves in north-west China. This UNESCO Heritage Site is the largest, oldest , and most […]
2022-04-27 07:17:17
Celebrating ten years of the Opera Holland Park Young Artists
[…] in the 2021 Young Artists production of Le nozze di Figaro Julien van Mellaerts in 'Mein Sehnen mein Wahnen' from Korngold's Die tote Stadt Schaunard in the 2016 Young Artists production of La Boheme, the Count in the 2021 main stage Le nozze di Figaro, and co-curator of OHP's Opera in Song series Lucy Anderson, Tatiana in this years Young Artists production of Eugene Onegin, sAng the closing part of Tatiana's Letter Scene The pianist was Thomas Ang, who was the Young Artists repetiteur in 2021 with Lucy Anderson being accompanied by Alina Sorokina, this year's Young Artists repetiteur We also heard interviews with several members and alumni of the scheme including Cecilia Stinton, who was the Young Artists director for the 2018 production of La traviata and who is directing this year's main stage production of Carmen, Elizabeth Karani, Sian Dicker, Blaise Malaba, Thomas Ang and Julien van Mellaerts. The importance of the […]
2021-11-22 12:00:00
Orchestral suites by Pierné, heard by Gerald Fenech. 'Darrell Ang keeps a tight but attentive reign on proceedings, and the Orchestre National de Lille responds with some superb playing full of energy and swagger.'
2021-09-08 08:53:43
Scriabin complete: all ten published piano sonatas in one sitting at Puskin House as part of the Bloomsbury Festival
Alexander Scriabin This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915) and in celebration, as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, Pushkin House has arrAnged an event where all ten of Scriabin's published piano sonatas will be performed by a team of distinguished pianists, Thomas Ang, Daniel Grimwood, Alexander Karpeyev, Dinara Klinton, James Kreiling, Yuri Paterson-Olenich, Maria Razumovskaya, Olga Stezhko and Nafis Umerkulova. On Saturday 23 October 2021 from 3pm to 6pm, they will give us the chance to hear all of the composer's published piano sonatas.Scriabin wrote his sonatas across almost his entire mature compositional life, from 1892-1913, in fact quite a narrow time-span for ten works. His Piano Sonata No. 1 (in fact the third to be written but the first to get an opus number) was his first large-scale masterpiece, an emotionally charged work which he wrote after damaging his right hand after excessive piano playing. […]
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