Shanghai New Music Week Part 1

Published: Jan. 15, 2016, 10 p.m.

The Relevant Tones team travels to Shanghai for New Music Week, a  relatively new but impressive festival held by the oldest conservatory  of music in China. This first in a four-part series features the music  of Chinese composers featured at the festival.

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Hosted by Seth Boustead
\nProduced by Jesse McQuarters

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Wen Deqing: The Glamor of Shanghai Concerto (excerpt)
\nShanghai Symphony Orchestra/Gottfried Rabl; Qin Li-Wei, vc.

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Chen Musheng \u2013 Morning Rays on the Sea (excerpt)
\nShanghai Symphony Orchestra/ Rabl; Yunggie Ma, voice

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Wen Deqing: The Sound Shining
\nEnsemble Intercontemporain/Beat Furrer; Lu Yiwen, erhu

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Jia Daqun: The Prospect of Colored Desert
\nEnsemble Offspring/Roland Peelman

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Ye Guohui: Beijing Opera Silhouettes
\nEnsemble Offspring/Peelman

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Lu Pei: Rhythm of Shanghai (excerpt)
\nShanghai Symphony Orchestra/Gottfried Rabl; Jiang Hanchao, saxophone