Under The Silver Moon

Stella Sung Zhou Long Tan Dun (Composer), Jacqueline Jeeyoung Kim Yoon Hee Hwang (Composer), Susan Glaser (Performer), Emily Mitchell (Performer), Matthew Gold (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Susan Glaser, Emily Mitchell, Matthew Gold
• Composer: Stella Sung Zhou Long Tan Dun, Jacqueline Jeeyoung Kim Yoon Hee Hwang
• Audio CD (February 8, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Koch Int'l Classics
• ASIN: B00003JAHE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #539,047 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Under the Silver Moon, July 19, 2000

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This review is from: Under The Silver Moon (Audio CD)

The following is an excerpt from the review in the July/August 2000 issue of Fanfare magazine, page 333:

This is a collection of works by five 20th-century composers from, or culturally connected to, the Far East who offer music that is redolent of their own cultures but that is rigorously organized in such ways that they can speak to people inured with Bach's language. Stella Sung, the American-born composer of the lead track-Dance of the White Lotus Under the Silver Moon-has long been active as a pianist and composer. Her aphoristically poetic lead piece on this offering is Impressionistic in ways that would have made Debussy smile.

Zhou Long was born in 1953 in Beijing. His education temporarily halted by Mao's Cultural Revolution, he served on a state farm in a remote area of the country where the natural landscape, with its roaring winds and fierce land fires, made an unshakable impression. From all of this he created an inimitable musical language. In Su-Recollections Trace Back to Ancient Times for flute and harp, one can taste something that is at once quintessentially Chinese and uncannily universal.

Everything on this offering is realized fluently and effortlessly by flutist Susan Glaser and harpist Emily Mitchell. Moments of easy respite for exhausted Yuppies at the ends of their exhausting days of broking stocks? I don't think so. This is real music that demands and deserves active listening, and that will reward those efforts tenfold.

William Zagorski