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Shih-Hui Chen: Returning Souls

Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Leone Buyse (flute), Robert Schulz (percussion), Bion Tsang (cello), Timothy Jones (baritone), Michael Webster (clarinet), Nuiko Wadden (harp), Matthew McClung (percussion), Timothy Peters (violin), Norman Fischer (narrator, cello), Jeanne Kierman Fischer (piano), Brandon Bell...

Release Date: 11th May 2018
Catalogue No: NW80746
Label: New World
Length: 62 minutes

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Chen, Shih-Hui: Returning Souls - Four Short Pieces on Three Formosan Amis Legends

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Cho-Liang Lin

Introduction - Sun, the Glowing Maiden

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Legend I - The Great Flood, the Descending Shaman

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Legend II - Head Hunting, Ascending Spirit becomes a Star

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Legend III - The Glowing Maiden, Returning Souls

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Chen, Shih-Hui: Returnings

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Bion Tsang, Robert Schulz, Leone Buyse

Chen, Shih-Hui: Sweet Rice Pie - Six Songs on Four Taiwanese Nursery Rhymes

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Timothy Jones
Kevin Noe

I. Sweet Rice Pie

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II. Swing High, Swing Low

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III. Crybaby

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IV. Firefly

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V. Swing High, Swing Low

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VI. Sweet Rice Pie

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Chen, Shih-Hui: Fantasia on the theme of plum blossom

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Formosa Quartet

I. Fantasia

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II. Ten Thousand Blooms

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III. Plum Blossoms

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Chen, Shih-Hui: Our names

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Norman Fischer
David Cho

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The five compositions by Shih-Hui Chen (b. 1962) on this recording can be considered variations of an “ethnic style”: they reflect her experiences of being able to return to Taiwan for a year in 2010 as a Fulbright Scholar specifically to study its music. Particular Chinese/Taiwanese myths and ideas stand behind these compositions. Melodies and instrumental techniques, topics and texts, the use of Chinese musical structures such as heterophony, and the peculiar stretta effects which can be seen both in terms of metric as well as in terms of sonic arrangements, are all elements that can be explained as derived from Chinese and Taiwanese musical practice. Each of the pieces revolves around a small number of notes and motifs which are continually

reinterpreted. The compositions feature colorful sounds and they exemplify Chen’s particular predilection for effective timbres, for the potent qualities of “noise” as well as of “silence” as part of a comprehensive musical whole. Not unlike many other composers of Chinese descent, who consider it important to express their “Chineseness” in music, Chen employs this style to great effect.

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Formosa Quartet, Kevin Noe, David Cho

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