Louie - Memories in an Ancient Garden (Work in progress)

[quantum]

I'm taking part in a concert featuring Canadian women composers, hoping to expose some unfamiliar music.  I may play this piece.

The player is instructed to "Play as if intoxicated by the scent of a thousand blossoms"
 

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

Amazing! I really enjoy this work. I have never heard of this composer before and am fascinated by this piece, and taking into account that the composer is a woman. I will definately look more into this composer and her works including this one.

[anodibu]

Very interesting piece and furthermore well played and recorded. Thanks for sharing!

Some more information I found on this piece:

Alexina Louie (1949 - )

Memories In An Ancient Garden , from “Scenes from a Jade Terrace” (1988)

“Memories In An Ancient Garden,” an intensely internalized
movement, is to be played in a rubato style “as if intoxicated by the
scent of a thousand blossoms.” The mystery of the movement is
further enhanced by colouristic playing inside the piano and the use of
an ostinato passage in the second section. It is as if the pianist is
conjuring up ghosts of the distant past. In its final measures, the
pianist reaches inside the piano to dampen the strings creating varied
overtones as different resonating points are touched”. (Alexina Louie)