The singing Gobi Desert [sound recording] : music for saxophones, traditional Chinese instruments and percussion / by Bright Sheng ... [et al.].
Material type: MusicPublisher number: 885 | innovainnova 885 | innovaPublication details: [S.l.] : innova, p2014.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inContained works:- Fang, Man Dream of a hundred flowers
- Huang, Ruo, 1976- Quartets, strings, no. 1
- Liang, Lei, 1972- Messages of white
- Sheng, Bright, 1955- Singing Gobi Desert
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD | Main Library | CD | WORLD Prism Quartet | Available | 33111007894070 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Partnering here with the ensemble Music from China, Prism presents works by four Chinese-born American composers. This recording reveals that saxophones and Chinese instruments have a natural, if unexpected, affinity.
Compact disc.
Music for saxophones, traditional Chinese instruments and percussion
Title from container.
The singing Gobi Desert / Bright Sheng (20:38) -- Messages of white / Lei Liang (17:28) -- Dream of a hundred flowers / Fang Man (15:47) -- The three tenses / Huang Ruo (14:31).
Prism Quartet (Timothy McAllister, soprano saxophone ; Zachary Shemon, alto saxophone ; Matthew Levy, tenor saxophone ; Taimur Sullivan, baritone saxophone) ; Music from China (Wang Guowei, erhu ; Chen Yihan, pipa ; Helen Yee, yangqin ; Frank Cassara, percussion ; Hu Jianbing, sheng (guest artist).
Recorded Feb. 5-8, 2012 at Elm Street Studios, Conshohocken, PA.