Susan Chan, East West Encounter - 1h 11m 22s

Tracks & Durations

1. Ning-Chi Chen-Cherishing Thoughts of Red Cliff (1984)	6:20
2. Alexina Louie-Warrior, from Scenes from a Jade Terrace (1988)	5:19
3. D durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck	5:20
4. Und sehr singbar vorgetragen	7:23
5. Franz Liszt-Mephisto Waltz No. 1	11:17
6. Caesar Franck-Prelude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18	10:51
7. Frederic Chopin-Piano Sonata No. 3 in b, I. Allegro maestoso	8:51
8. Frederic Chopin-Piano Sonata No. 3 in b, II. Scherzo. Molto vivace	2:41
9. Frederic Chopin-Piano Sonata No. 3 in b, III. Largo	7:56
10. Frederic Chopin-Piano Sonata No. 3 in b, IV. Finale. Presto, non tanto	5:18

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Review

This album, East West Encounter, contains an exciting encounter and harmonious amalgamation of piano music by 20th-century Chinese composers and traditional western composers. Contemporary Chinese composers Ning-Chi Chen of Hong Kong and Alexina Louie of Canada are featured, as well as Beethoven, Liszt, Franck and Chopin. One can hear the sounds of ancient Chinese battlefields, heroic scenes, and happy times in ChenÕs Cherishing Thoughts of Red Cliff, while effects of the ghost of an ancient Chinese warrior can be felt in LouieÕs Warrior, itself a striking fusion of Eastern and Western musical language and philosophical ideas. The two-movement Beethoven Sonata in E minor, Op. 90, contains much drama and beauty in its depiction of the love affair of Count Moritz von Lichnowsky. LisztÕs own piano transcription of his orchestral Mephisto Waltz is vivid with romantic drama taken from a portion of the Faust legend. A work full of sublime beauty and spirituality, PrŽlude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18, by CŽsar Franck is almost an antithesis of the impish Mephisto Waltz. ChopinÕs Sonata in B minor, Op. 58, speaks for itself as one of the great masterpieces of piano literature.

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