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Tan Dun: Ghost Opera

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Recorded
  
January 1996

Artist
  
Wu Man

Label
  
Nonesuch Records Inc.

Producer
  
Judith Sherman

Release date
  
14 March 1997

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Released
  
14 March 1997 (1997-03-14)

Tan Dun Ghost Opera (1997)
  
Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) (1997)

Genre
  
Contemporary classical music

Similar
  
Kronos Quartet albums, Contemporary classical music albums, Other albums

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera is an album by the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man. The album contains five compositions by Chinese composer Tan Dun written in 1994 for string quartet and pipa. As of 2011, the composition was still on the Quartet's program.

Contents

Musicians

  • David Harrington – violin, water bowl, bowed gong, vocals, one-stringed lute, cymbals, stones
  • John Sherba – violin, paper whistle, vocals, cymbals, stones, one-stringed lute, bowed gong, waterbowl
  • Hank Dutt – viola, vocals, cymbals, stones, bowed gong, water bowl
  • Joan Jeanrenaud – cello, vocals, bowed gong, water bowl
  • Wu Man – pipa, soprano voice, vocals, bowed gong, tam-tam, Tibetan bells, paper

    • Songs

    1Act I: Bach - Monks - and Shakespeare Meet in WaterTan Dun8:55
    2Act II: Earth DanceTan Dun6:47
    3Act III: Dialogue with “Little Cabbage”Tan Dun3:14

    References

    Tan Dun: Ghost Opera Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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