22 Dec 2017

He Zhanghao & Chen Gang: Butterfly Love

From Music Alive, 7:00 pm on 22 December 2017

Butterfly Love uses a famous love story as a theme, adopting a wealth of opera music performance practices, combined with the Western genre of the concerto. The use of charming melodies, lively music images, strong ethnic style, and distinctive local characteristics, made this work deeply rooted in people's hearts. The use of folk materials of China's minority nationalities was extremely popular among Chinese composers during 1960-1980.

 

Recorded 28 September 2017, St Mary of the Angels, Wellington by RNZ Concert.

Producer: David McCaw

Engineer: Graham Kennedy