Highly tuneful, virtuosic piano and instrumental music from the years of the Great Chinese Cultural Revolution. Repertoire is almost completely unknown in the West. Album features officially sanctioned ”propaganda music,” compositions originating from tribal Chinese minorities, and works by politically persecuted and even imprisoned composers. Several tracks feature Tian's highly evocative arrangements for piano, accompanied by traditional Chinese instruments like the pipa (lute), bamboo flutes, and Chinese hand drum.

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Luis de Pablo (born 28 January 1930) is a Spanish composer.He was born in Bilbao, living in Madrid from age six and starting to compose aged 12. Although he received composition lessons from Maurice Ohana and Max Deutsch, he was essentially an autodidact in composition. His participation at the Darmstadt courses in 1959 led to the performance of some of his works under Boulez and Maderna...

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Helge Jörns (* 18. März 1941 in Mannheim) ist ein deutscher Komponist und Musikpädagoge...

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Gerald Eckert (born 27 December 1960) is a German composer, cellist, and painter. He currently lives in Eckernförde...

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Su extensa discografía incluye grabaciones para diversos sellos; Naxos, Stradivarius, Col Legno, Glossa, Verso, Decca o Deutsche Grammophon. En su catálogo de compositor destacan obras como Cum plenus forem enthousiasmo, El aire de saber cerrar los ojos, Almost on stage, Io la mangio con le mani, Proyecto y Mise-en-scène...

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The reason for me to make music is the fascination of sound and rhythm and I have never accepted boundaries in my musical work because I think the commitment to a certain style consequently leads to a limitation of musical means, thus to a limitation of the expressions possible...

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Precious and rare double album of the famous "The Gold Collection 40" series released by RETRO Records UK, with authentic recordings of great music. The first CD contains arias and songs with the three top tenors of all times: Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli and Luciano Pavarotti, and the second 20 italian instrumentals performed by the legendary mandolins orchestra "I Mandulini Napuletani". A collector's jewel from "The Museum of Old Masters" Sound Archives. Enjoy.

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Edison Vasilievich Denisov (Russian: Эдисо́н Васи́льевич Дени́сов) (April 6, 1929, Tomsk, Russia — November 24, 1996, Paris, France) was a Russian composer of so called "Underground" — "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music...

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