Deqing Wen: Orchestral Works ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gottfried Rabl

• 1 Shanghai Prelude 19:40
• 2 The Fantasia of Peony Pavilion 17:39
• 3 Variation of a Rose 15:19
• 4 Nostalgia (version for orchestra) 09:07
• 5 Love Song and River Chant (version for orchestra) 08:21
• Total Runtime 01:10:06

Info for Deqing Wen: Orchestral Works

Deqing Wen’s compositional style is heavily influenced by Chinese art and culture. The music that results is emotive, accessible, and vivid. This album contains five of his works: Shanghai Prelude (2015), The Fantasia of Peony Pavilion (2013), Variation of a Rose (2000), Nostalgia (2014), Love Song and River Chant (2010). Bruno Weinmeister is the featured cellist for the cello concerto, Shanghai Prelude. This album is recorded by the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gottfried Rabl.

Bruno Weinmeister, cello
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gottfried Rabl, conductor

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1997, the orchestra‘s academy aims to offer talented young musicians the chance to work with the Vienna RSO; by taking part in daily rehearsals as well as in concerts, they are encouraged to expand their contemporary repertoire. This ensures that young orchestral musicians learn not only traditional playing techniques, but are also confronted with unusual, experimental techniques. In addition, they can benefit from the regular encounters with world-famous composers and conductors that result from the orchestra‘s specialisation in contemporary music.

Furthermore, contact with Festivals such as „Wien Modern", „musikprotokoll" and many others, opens up a world of professional prospects for young orchestral performers.

A total of 10 string positions are provided. Selected musicians will receive six-month contracts after auditions; in some cases, the total contract-period can be extended to three years. By these means the orchestra contributes substantially to ensuring there is a plentiful reservoire of upcoming young orchestral musicians.

Gottfried Rabl
Born in Vienna, Gottfried Rabl studied piano and holds degrees in French horn, conducting and vocal coaching from the Vienna University of Music. He was awarded a conducting fellowship in Helsinki and led his own highly successful ensemble for avantgarde music, Theatre of Silence, for several years, appearing as conductor, pianist and composer. He later started a close collaboration with Leonard Bernstein in Vienna, Milan and the United States, serving as musical assistant and editor of Bernstein’s last opera A Quiet Place. He subsequently pursued, for several years, post-graduate studies at the Indiana University School of Music in the United States, where he became conductor of the local symphony orchestra. In Vienna Gottfried Rabl is a frequent conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and works regularly with the renowned contemporary music ensemble die reihe. Internationally he has worked with a number of orchestras and recorded for BMG-Ariola and the German labels Orfeo and cpo as well as Sony Classical, with acclaimed recordings including all nine symphonies by Egon Wellesz for cpo. The first two CDs received enthusiastic reviews in Europe as well as in the United States and were nominated for a GRAMMY® Award and, at MIDEM, for the best recording of a twentieth-century composition.

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