It's almost a truism that contemporary Chinese composers merge Chinese and Western elements, but in the music of Bright Sheng, the fusions are often unusually deep and subtle, even as Sheng has not obtained quite the celebrity of some of his contemporaries. The three works on this release, with Sheng conducting the Shanghai and Suzhou Symphony Orchestras, are all from the 2010s, are all performed here for the first time, and offer excellent examples of his recent style, in which new accessibility is evident in his music. ...
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It's almost a truism that contemporary Chinese composers merge Chinese and Western elements, but in the music of Bright Sheng, the fusions are often unusually deep and subtle, even as Sheng has not obtained quite the celebrity of some of his contemporaries. The three works on this release, with Sheng conducting the Shanghai and Suzhou Symphony Orchestras, are all from the 2010s, are all performed here for the first time, and offer excellent examples of his recent style, in which new accessibility is evident in his music. The opening Let Fly was premiered in 2013 by violinist Gil Shaham and the Detroit Symphony, and although it appears as a single movement on this Naxos release, it is really a full-fledged three-movement violin concerto, with a gorgeously melodic central section that is ready for concert programs anywhere. Here, solo violinist Dan Zhu confidently handles the difficult solo part. The six Zodiac Tales were composed in 1992 but revised in 2016; it is the later version that is performed...
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