Zhou Tian
SYMPHONIC SUITE: THE GRAND CANAL
Pacific Audio & Video Co. (Imported)

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Zhou Tian's Grand Canal Suite was recorded by the Guangzhou Symphony with guest soloists and it was released by China's largest recording label Pacific Audio & Video. The 7-movement work calls for two Chinese instruments, a Chinese opera singer, mixed chorus and full orchestra and it was commissioned by Hangzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles to celebrate the Grand Canal of China.

Performer: Guangzhou Symphony, Guangzhou City Chorus, Mingzhao Zhou (solo violin), Xian Zhuo (solo cello), Mao Weitao (Chinese opera narrator), Ma Lin (Erhu).

Composer, Conductor: Zhou Tian

On This CD:

1 The Grand Canal 7:57

2 The Beginning of A Dream 5:10

3 Soul 4:50

4 Life 4:45

5 Rhyme 5:38

6 Mother 4:39

7 Tomorrow 7:30

Audio CD (June 10, 2009)
SPARS Code: DDD
Label: Pacific Audio & Video (PCD-6425)
ISBN: 978-7-7991-1980-9

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• Selected as theme music for the China Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
 

• Performed at the Celebration Concert of the 60th Anniversary of the founding of China.
 

• Nominated for China’s Golden Recording Award (In Progress)

THE BILLY COLLINS SUITE
Cedille Records

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Grammy award-winning label Cedille Records releases Zhou Tian's new work in The Billy Collins Suite, the first CD devoted to musical settings of poems by the popular U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins.

Performer: Jonathan Berger, David Cunliffe, John Bruce Yeh, Lincoln Trio, Tim Munro, et al.

Composer: Vivian Fung, Stacy Garrop, Lita Grier, Pierre Jalbert, Zhou Tian

Audio CD (October 27, 2009)
SPARS Code: DDD
Label: Cedille
ASIN: B002N5KELA

"Chinese composer Zhou Tian scores his setting for flute, viola, and harp with narrator, deliberately invoking Debussy’s Sonata for that combination while, in terms of harmonic language, moving right into the East. The piece is absolutely beautiful. Zhou evokes a sense of space and timelessness that suits the text perfectly. The performance is of the utmost sensitivity.”
—Colin Clarke, Fanfare

 

“...a winning collection of vocal chamber works by Pierre Jalbert, Stacy Garrop, Vivian Fung, Lita Grier and Zhou Tian, all first recordings. The Chicago artists breathe new life into Collins' wry poetry through their skills and caring.” —Chicago Tribune

 

“Rarely do I listen to a CD of new works and instantly feel that every work/set is not only masterfully crafted but a true masterpiece; these all unquestionably are.”

—Classical Voice of New England

 

"Zhou Tian's musical setting . . . is the most delicate, lyrical, and beautiful of all the compositions in the Suite and provide[s] a fitting conclusion to the proceedings." —John J. Puccio, Classical Candor

 

"If Zhou's isn't the most effective setting in the bunch, it's certainly the prettiest...As a Billy Collins enthusiast, I think this project mostly does the poet proud.”
—Audiophile Audition

 

“Chicago’s classical staple Cedille Records celebrated its 20th anniversary and released The Billy Collins Suite: Songs Inspired by His Poetry, a lovely album that captures the details and playful spirit of the former U.S. poet laureate with a sundry of original compositions.”

—Time Out Chicago

 

"Zhou Tian’s Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems mixes narration in and out of the instrumental fabric, which in this instance is the Debussian trio of flute, viola, and harp. It’s an unusual but utterly satisfying fusion of French flavors with an American view of a Chinese poem. The interplay is ingenious, at times suggesting a Chinese composer’s quotations of a French composer’s Asian-tinged melodies. The recording is a model of clarity and finely honed balances, and the performers are of a uniformly high level." —Michael Cameron, Fanfare

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