Tan Dun

This eight-movement suite was written by composer Tan Dun when he was a student in 1978-1979, about the time he left his home in Hunan to study at the conservatory in Beijing. He was homesick, and wro...

This work is a set of free variations drawn from a 13th-century Chinese drama by Kuan Han-Chimg. The complex cello and percussion writing focuses on the timbres, textures and fiddling techniques of Ch...

Winner of the Academy Award for best original score, this is one of the most unique sounding movie soundtracks to come along in many years. This music features descriptive melodies in an Asian setting...

Manuel Barrueco created this arrangement for the Beijing Guitar Duo of the now famous solo piano piece Eight Memories in Watercolor. Includes two performing scores.

Originally commissioned by Google/YouTube for the inaugural YouTube Symphony Orchestra project, this edition represents Academy Award® winner (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and UNESCO Goodwill Ambas...

Originally commissioned by Google/YouTube for the inaugural YouTube Symphony Orchestra project, this edition represents Academy Award® winner (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and UNESCO Goodwill Ambas...

Originally commissioned by Google/YouTube for the inaugural YouTube Symphony Orchestra project, this edition represents Academy Award winner (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and UNESCO Goodwill Ambass...

Originally commissioned by Google/YouTube for the inaugural YouTube Symphony Orchestra project, this edition represents Academy Award® winner (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and UNESCO Goodwill Ambas...

Exciting piece by Tan Dun who is a prize winning composer from Hunan China. This piece tries to draw on Chinese colors and techniques of the Peking Opera.

This work is perhaps best described by the composer Tan Dun: 'About five years ago I went to an exhibition on the works of painter Paul Klee at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I was extremely mo...

In Distance is so titled because of the wide 'distance' between each of the instruments (Piccolo, Harp and Bass Drum) in terms of register, timbre and dynamics. The music itself is also distant, in th...