East asian piano pieces

[svensknavi]

Hello. Sorry if this isn't in the right board, but I hope it is. I was wondering if anyone knows of any east asian piano pieces/composers, preferably around a "level 6" difficulty. To be more specific, not new age stuff like Yiruma, but more, for a lack of better term, classical. Not even sure if such a thing even exists with the differences between eastern and western music, so I guess even if it's not something actually from east asia, but just has more of an oriental sound to it would be nice.

Thanks!

[faulty_damper]

There is a CD, Japonisme, and is performed by pianist Noriko Ogawa who plays Japanese inspired music.

Here's the playlist:
Gil-Marchex: Deux Images du vieux Japon
Szántó: In Japan
Niemann: Japan, Op.89
Saint-Saëns: Overture to the Opera 'La Princesse jaune', Op.30
Scott: Soirée japonaise, Op.67 No.4
Silas: Tokio, Japanese March
Poldini: Étude japonaise, Op.27 No.2
Grainger: Arrival platform Humlet
Ketèlbey: From a Japanese Screen

[thorn]

Off the top of my head (I don't know what Level 6 means so I'm just mentioning easier ones)

Takemitsu: Clouds, Breeze, Romance
Tan Dun: Eight Memories in Watercolor

[symphonicdance]

To: svensknavi

I "suspect" the kind of music you are looking for is (traditional) folk tunes/songs transcribed/re-written by local composers.

There are three websites (but you probably need to use google translate or other tools if you don't know their languages).

[Chinese] https://www.gangqinpu.com/
[Japanese] https://www.piano.or.jp/
[Japanese / English] https://www.zen-on.co.jp/world/composers/

I am not sure if level 6 as mentioned by you belongs to the US system.  Is it intermediate level?

[symphonicdance]

Some popular Chinese ones...  but they may belong to the more advanced level....

Yellow River Concerto (transcribed for piano solo)
[mov 1] https://www.gangqinpu.com/html/16846.htm
[mov 2] https://www.gangqinpu.com/html/10529.htm
[mov 3] https://www.gangqinpu.com/html/742.htm
[mov 4] https://www.gangqinpu.com/html/5947.htm

Autumn Moon over the Calm Lake
https://www.gangqinpu.com/html/12077.htm

Reflections of the Moon on the Water of Erquan
https://www.gangqinpu.com/html/10028.htm

Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon
https://www.gangqinpu.com/html/161.htm

Some of aforesaid pieces have been recorded, e.g.
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.570602

[symphonicdance]

This is the CD, Japanisme, played by Noriko Ogawa as mentioned by faulty_damper
https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/BIS/BISCD1045

Here is another one played by the same pianist
https://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_Piano-Collection_000000000017977/item_%E5%B0%8F%E5%B7%9D%E5%85%B8%E5%AD%90plays-Japanese-Piano-Music_339367

BTW, Noriko Ogawa's Debussy and Rachmaninoff are also pretty decent.

And another played by Miwa Yuguchi
https://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_Classical-Japanese-Composers_000000000066348/item_Piano-Music-%E5%B0%BE%E9%AB%98%E5%B0%9A%E5%BF%A0-%E5%AF%BA%E5%86%85%E5%9C%92%E7%94%9F-%E4%B8%80%E6%9F%B3%E6%85%A7-%E6%AD%A6%E6%BA%80%E5%BE%B9-%E7%9F%A2%E4%BB%A3%E7%A7%8B%E9%9B%84-%E6%B9%AF%E5%8F%A3%E7%BE%8E%E5%92%8C_882122

If my memory serves me correctly, some of the aforesaid pieces can be found at:
www.scorser.com

[symphonicdance]

And some Korean ones:-

https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572406

https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/aug00/korean.htm

[svensknavi]

Looks like it should be enough to find something in there - thanks everyone! 

[khantallis123]

A composer who's name starts with Wang(a modern classical composer of China) transcribed many pieces but maybe 8+ level including:
    Chinese: Dragon Lantern Tune(Maybe "grade" 6? No idea, really. Just skimmed the music)
    Japanese: Sakura Sakura(8+)
He also composed himself. For example,
100 Birds Pay Hommage to the Phoenix.
I have no idea if my English translations are correct or not.

[khantallis123]

Rimsky-Korsakov: I don't know if this is actually Indian, but I doubt it. "Song of India"
Tchaikovsky : Almost same case. "Arabian Dance". Sounds like Xinjiang province music, so maybe it DOES sound a little "oriental".