All About The Chinese Orchestra
Music
Description
Description
Under the batons of the Music Office conductors Tsui Ying-fai and Kwok Kin-ming, the concert features various pieces of Chinese music including the lively and well-known “Stepping High”, arranged by Peng Xiuwen; the third movement of the concerto for two erhus “Song of Wusuli”; “Song of the Tsou Tribe”, featuring the traditional music style of the Tsou Tribe in Taiwan; the Suona concerto “Hua Mulan”, with Henan Yu Chinese opera music elements used to present the legendary story of Hua Mulan; and “Instrumental Guide to the Chinese Orchestra”, which features various musical instruments and guest narrator Kathy Lam introducing the different characteristics of the instruments.
Other pieces include “Splendorous Jiangnan”, with the dizi, the erhu and the pipa as leading instruments, and “Chinese Music for All Seasons”, a commissioned work created by the Singapore Chinese Orchestra in 2004 to showcase musical styles and works from different eras.
Repertoire：Stepping High (Guangdong Music, arr. Peng Xiuwen)
Composer：Liu Xijin
Repertoire："Song of the Wusuli River" (Concerto for Two Erhus)
Composer：Liu Shueh Shuan
Repertoire：Song of the Tsou Tribe
Composer：Kuan Nai Chung
Repertoire："Hua Mulan" (Suona Concerto)
Composer：Kuan Nai Chung
Repertoire：Instrumental Guide to the Chinese Orchestra
Composer：Wang Danhong
Repertoire：Splendorous Jiangnan
Composer：Phoon Yew Tien
Repertoire：Chinese Music for All Seasons
Conductor：Tsui Ying Fai; Kwok Kin Ming
Guest Narrator：Kathy Lam
Erhu：Wong Ching Yin; Yeung Ka Wai; Tung Tsz Ching
Suona：Ma Wai Him
Pipa：Shiu Pui Yee
Dizi：To Fung Lim
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Classical Music Yearbook 2014" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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