Wenchen Qin: Orchestral Works

Featuring taped sounds of nature from across the world, The Nature’s Dialogue is the highlight of this atmospheric, if quite demanding, disc. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jun 2018
Catalogue No: KAI0015032
Label: Kairos
Length: 65 minutes

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Qin: Echoes from the other Shore

Work length13:48

Wei Ji (zheng)
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Gottfried Rabl

Qin: The Nature's Dialogue

Work length18:52

Wenchen Qin (tape)
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Gottfried Rabl

Qin: Across the Skies

Work length16:02

Weiwei Lan (pipa)
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Gottfried Rabl

Qin: Lonely Song

Work length17:24

ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Gottfried Rabl

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Four pieces by Chinese composer Wenchen Qin: 'Echoes from the other Shore', written for zheng and orchestra, is based on four central core notes that originate from the folk music of Central Asia. In 'The Nature’s Dialogue' for orchestra and audio tapes, on the tapes there is a wide spread collection of sounds of nature from across the world. They form an integral part of the sonorous and compositional structure of the piece. 'Across the Skies' is a term borrowed from a Chinese idiom, meaning a heavenly steed galloping across the sky and with a sharp contrast in style, the last piece 'Lonely Song', creates a good deal of dramatic tension.

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August 2018

Featuring taped sounds of nature from across the world, The Nature’s Dialogue is the highlight of this atmospheric, if quite demanding, disc.

September 2018

Qin, one of China’s most eminent composers, who in two concertos on this disc combines spectralist harmonies and traditional Chinese instruments to create novel takes on the concerto form…On the whole, Qin uses the orchestra in a restrained way and there are marvellous textural contrasts…The composer’s aim in The Nature’s Dialogue (2010) for orchestra and tape is to inspire ‘reverence for nature and art’.

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