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“Excerpt from Wailing

By Wang Lu

Performed by the Holland Symfonia, conducted by Hans Leenders. Copyright ©2010 Wang Lu. Used by permission.
 

Wang Lu (b. 1982) is a Chinese composer and pianist based in New York. Her works have been performed internationally by groups such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Shanghai National Chinese Orchestra, Musiques Nouvelles Ensemble of Belgium, and Nouvel Ensemble Moderne of Canada. She is a recent first prize winner of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Forum for Young Composers and the Tactus Young Composers Forum in Belgium, a finalist of Gaudeamus Music Week 2010 in Amsterdam, and received a Tremplin commission from the Ensemble Intercontemporain/IRCAM.

Esopus 16 (Spring 2011)
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Esopus CD #16: Composers

For this issue’s CD, we asked composer and pianist Anthony Cheung (whose essay “New Colors: Notes on Composing in the 21st Century,” opens the magazine) to curate an audio compilation that would give the Esopus audience a sense of the range of music being created today by both emerging and established composers. Cheung’s liner notes on the artists and their selections on the CD offer an excellent introduction to what he terms the “eclectic dialogue” that invigorates contemporary composition.

TRACK LIST

 
01
Anthony Cheung
Excerpt from vis-à-vis
 
02
Enno Poppe
Excerpt from Rad
 
03
Tristan Murail
Excerpt from L'esprit des dunes
 
04
Fausto Romitelli
Excerpt from Professor Bad Trip, Lesson 1
 
05
Steve Lehman
Echoes/Travail, Transformation, and Flow
 
06
Unsuk Chin
Immense Voix from Cantatrix Sopranica
 
07
Marcos Balter
Excerpt from Portmanteaux
 
08
Wang Lu
Excerpt from Wailing
 
09
Bernhard Lang
Excerpt from DW 16, Songbook 1
 
10
Ryoji Ikeda
Principle from dataphonics
 
11
Benedict Mason
No. 2 for glass plastic and metal with air fire and water
 
12
Alex Mincek
Excerpt from Nucleus
 
13
Augusta Read Thomas
…mountainous atmospheres of sky and sea…(Homage to Debussy)