Tan Dun: Ghost Opera

Studio album by Kronos Quartet and Wu Man

Released

14 March 1997

Recorded

January 1996

Genre

contemporary classical

Label

Nonesuch (#79445)

Producer

Judith Sherman

Kronos Quartet and Wu Man chronology

Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
(1997)

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera
(1997)

Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ)
(1997)

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^[1] for string quartet and pipa.^[2] As of 2011, the composition was still on the Quartet's program.^[3]

Tracklist

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Act I. Bach, Monks, and Shakespeare Meet in Water"	8:55
2.	"Act II. Earth Dance"	6:47
3.	"Act III. Dialogue with "Little Cabbage""	3:14
4.	"Act IV. Metal and Stone"	10:10
5.	"Act V. Song of Paper"	6:40

Personnel

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

References

↑ Winters, Ken (26 January 2011). "Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera is fresh and hauntingly memorable - The Globe and Mail". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
↑ Swed, Mark (29 June 1997). "A Sound as Magnetic as Hong Kong Itself; 'Symphony 1997' makes the colony's story universal by employing musical styles from around the world". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
↑ McCallum, Peter (14 January 2011). "Kronos Quartet - Ghost Opera & A Chinese Home". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 March 2012.

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