Asian piano works 2000 - 2007

[iumonito]

There are well over 40 million people who play the piano in China, Japan, Korea and India.

I am wondering whether there is an hour of music to be put together of works composed since 2000 by composers of each of these countries (or other Asian nations).

If you know, please elaborate.

Feel free to start with Lang Lang's CD, which I have not yet heard.

[houseofblackleaves]

*cough*TanDun*cough*

Then there's Lang Lang's Liu Yang River, if your looking for peices by him.  There are the two peices composed for last year's Hammamatsu cometition (Distances II and Musica Nara) and then theres always Tan Dun.  Oh, silly Tan Dun.

Then theres some older stuff by Takemitsu and Aki Takahashi methinks.

[retrouvailles]

Takashi Yoshimatsu has some really nice pieces, but I'm not entirely sure whether he composes (composed?) anything within this period. He is a composer in the neo-romantic style, so don't worry about any crazy weird music, heh. You can sort of compare him to Tan Dun, but theyre different, of course. Takemitsu and Takahashi are good too. Their music is light and nice, but older, as mentioned.

If you want something a bit more modern, check out Jay Alan Yim. He composed a work for piano called [ten]dril, which is supposed to be one of the most difficult works for piano. Not sure of his other works though.

[soliloquy]

Asian composers off the top of my head:

Bring Sheng
Toru Takemitsu
Tan Dun
Misato Mochizuki
Qijang Chen
Jay Allan Yim
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Yoshihisa Taira
Hifumi Shimoyama
De-Qing Wen
Yuji Takahashi
Wen-Chung Chou
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Long Zhou
Ichiro Nodaira
Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Tahashi Yoshimatsu
Man-Ching Yu
Minni Ang
Fei Wu
Hiroyuki Itoh
Wing-Wah Chan
Michael Asmara
Hsiao-Lan Wang
Yiu-Kwong Chung
Jie Wang
Cheong Jan Chan
Akira Nishimura
Hideko Kawamoto
Kotoka Suzuki
Ka Nim Chan
Ken Ueno
Maka Ishii
Yoko Shimamura
Tao Yu
Isao Matsushita
Kunsu Shim
Kyungsun Suh
Toshiro Mayuzumi
Minoru Miki
Shinichiro Ikebe
Sukhi Kang
Keiko Fujiie
Wen-Jing Guo
Masakazu Natsuda
Tokuhide Niimi
Hye-Kyung Lee
Jing-Jing Luo


Sorry about any misspellings- obviously none of these are my foreign language and I am not going to take the time to look them up one by one (although I know a lot of the phonetics so they should all be pretty close; some will probably have hyphens when they shouldn't or vice-versa)    Also, these are just contemporary Asian composers that I know of; several may be dead or may have not even written for the piano at all.

[retrouvailles]

That looks like a copy-paste from somewhere, especially because you misspelled Bright Sheng's name there, and you haven't in the past. Tsk tsk tsk.

[soliloquy]

That looks like a copy-paste from somewhere, especially because you misspelled Bright Sheng's name there, and you haven't in the past. Tsk tsk tsk.

Yes definitely a copy-paste.  It's just a coincidence that my favorite Asian composers are at the top, and they're not in alphabetical order.

Oh and that Bright Sheng's name is misspelled.  That should be a dead giveaway that I didn't grab it off some website.  I have dysgraphia and will occasionally switch words when typing (do it a lot more when hand-writing).  Bright/bring.  You've probably noticed me do it before   If you're going to make remarks like that, why don't you back them up and find a website where that list is posted.  Not even necessarily in that order; just those composers.  Maybe even knock off a few of the more obscure ones like Taira.

[retrouvailles]

Yes definitely a copy-paste.  It's just a coincidence that my favorite Asian composers are at the top, and they're not in alphabetical order.

Oh and that Bright Sheng's name is misspelled.  That should be a dead giveaway that I didn't grab it off some website.  I have dysgraphia and will occasionally switch words when typing (do it a lot more when hand-writing).  Bright/bring.  You've probably noticed me do it before

It's possibly someone else's favorites list from some blog. You might have just switched around a few names or something to call it "your own".

Don't mind me. I'm just teasing you, heh. I'm giving this otherwise short-lived thread some life.

[iumonito]

Fantastic, this is a great start, but it appears to me there is little depth to our knowledge and that my narrow question is getting a little squashed.  I do appreciate, as context, what you have to say about 20th C. music from Asian composers, among which Takemitsu towers in popularity, only rivaled by Tan Dun, whom certainly is active currently.

But the narrow question is about worthwhile piano works.  I am interested in titles, descriptions and analyses, how to get, recordings, websites promoting the disemination of this music, etc.

For those of you interested, this is an opportunity to raise the level of musicological knowledge in pianostreet and to explore this potentially very interesting area.

[soliloquy]

Fantastic, this is a great start, but it appears to me there is little depth to our knowledge and that my narrow question is getting a little squashed.  I do appreciate, as context, what you have to say about 20th C. music from Asian composers, among which Takemitsu towers in popularity, only rivaled by Tan Dun, whom certainly is active currently.

But the narrow question is about worthwhile piano works.  I am interested in titles, descriptions and analyses, how to get, recordings, websites promoting the disemination of this music, etc.

For those of you interested, this is an opportunity to raise the level of musicological knowledge in pianostreet and to explore this potentially very interesting area.

I don't know about post-1999, but some good pieces from the composers i listed that are solo piano you should look into:

Sheng "My Song"
Shim "This Space"
Yim :[ten]dril
Takemitsu "Litany"
Taira Sho Ro
Taira Sonomorphie

[iumonito]

Now we are talking.

Any of that stuff available un pdf for fair use study?  I have heard Litany and it is very worthwhile.

[retrouvailles]

I have quite a few, but, because it was written from 2000-2007, its VERY much under copyright.

[iumonito]

Good.  Would you care to discuss your impressions and experience?