An-Lun Huang 黄安伦: Piano Music
An-lun Huang, born in Guang Zhou, Guangdong, in 1949, and a resident of Toronto since 1986, survived the hardships of the Cultural Revolution to make his mark as pianist and composer both in China and in the west. In his piano music he is concerned to find a meeting ground between the piano as a western instrument and his own roots as a Chinese musician. This album shows the cross-fertilisation going in both directions, with a lively dance suite from a ballet inspired by the ancient cave art in Dunhuang, in western China, and the universal figure of Bach stimulating a substantial set of polyphonic compositions where western harmonies are refracted through Chinese colours.
Xing Rong, piano
Listen To This Recording:
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Two Preludes, Op. 5 (1971)*
- No. 1 in C major
- No. 2 in C minor
- Feather Men
- Persian Dance
- Celestial Musicians
- Toccata
- Toccata
- Fugue
- Prelude
- Fugue
- Prelude
- Fugue
- Prelude
- Fugue
- ‘Selling Matches’
Three Excerpts from the Ballet ‘A Dream of Dunhuang’, Op. 29 (1979)
Four Large Preludes and Fugues , Op. 68 (2008)
No. 1 Toccata, Chorale and Fugue on BACH in D minor
No. 2 Prelude and Fugue in G minor
No. 3 Prelude and Fugue in F minor
No. 4 Prelude and Fugue in D major
The Little Match Girl – Ballet, Op. 24 (1977)
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
Ludwig Von Toronto :
‘An-lun Huang’s music is the unique expression of the creative spirit of a man who has had the opportunity and the misfortune to have his life nurtured, damaged and reborn by two vastly different cultures. […]
Toccata Classics deserves enormous credit for at least bringing most of his piano music to a wider audience.
Xing Rong, the outstanding young pianist on this CD, plays the music of An-lun Huang with intelligence and a solid technique.’
—Paul E. Robinson, Ludwig Von Toronto