yuan zhi yuan BOOKLET

Yuan Zhi Yuan

Conductor: TSUNG YEH
Soprano: XING RUFENG
Tenor: GAO YONGPING
Azguime; live-electronics by Miguel Azguime

HUAXIA ENSEMBLE (Beijing / China)
Artistic director: Li Xi’an
Xun, Xiao, Di: Zhang Weiliang
Erhu: Cao Dewei
Pipa: Chen Yihan
Sanxian: Zhao Chengwei
Yangqin: Zhang Xia
Zheng: Chang Jin

ANTIFONIA CHOIR (Cluj-Napoca / Romania)
Choir conductor: Constantin Rîpa
Singers: Corina Maier, Lavinia Chereches, Maria Abrudan, Marina Simionescu,
Nelida Nedelcut, Adrian Sandu, Dorin Simionescu, Ion Tibrea, Sorin Vacar

Yuan Zhi Yuan (from origins to origin)
(1997-1998)
for Soprano, tenor, 6 traditional Chinese instruments, chamber choir and live-electronics

Texts from Huainan Zhi (150 B.C.) sung in Chinese
Thanks: Claude Larre, Elisabeth Rochat de La Vallée, Yvette K. Centeno, Chen Qigang, Institut Ricci Paris

Live-recording of the premiere at the great concert hall of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, the 16th of September 1998, within the “ACARTE Encounters’98”. Staging by Paula

Commissioned by Fundação Oriente