Ming Wang

These twelve piano miniatures, of increasing difficulty, are a magical distillation of Ming Wang's long-desired encounter with the Alpine landscape: Rustling Brook, Two Marmots, Colourful Clouds, The...

Nota del compositore Quando ho visitato la mia patria, Taiwan, nell'inverno del 2016, ho ricevuto una telefonata dall'Ensemble Kontrapunkte di Vienna che mi chiedeva di dirgli immediatamente quale sar...

Ispirato dai cambiamenti avvenuti nel mondo dopo tre anni di pandemia, questo brano ha il carattere di una preghiera affinché la nostra civiltà esca dalle tenebre e torni alla luce. Vuole ricordare co...

Le larve di cicala vivono sottoterra per anni, strisciando lentamente e pacificamente nell'oscurità, fino a quel breve e improvviso momento in cui, in una calda e umida vigilia d'estate, emergono, met...

Sui: una dinastia della Cina di 1400 anni fa (581-618 d.C.)Gong: Corte imperialeEsiste un brano musicale antico molto toccante che descrive il desiderio, l'amore e la passione nel serraglio della dina...

The present work features a kind of pentatonic music that is often associated with a far eastern landscape. However, it has no genuine compositional connection with Asian music. In this piece pentaton...

Hoamat — the Bavarian pronunciation of the word 'Heimat' (Home) — was commissioned by the Municipal Music School in the city of Burghausen for their 'Lokalklang' festival. The ten movements make use o...

This work uses one of the most popular Chinese folk melodies. The Little Chinese Cabbage, which withers prematurely in the field, is used as a metaphor for an orphan. This lament reflects the tragic d...

Entfaltung ('Unfolding'), a septet commissioned by the Viennese ensemble Auer's Flutery, fuses the sound worlds of the historical and the modern flute, the two instruments engaging in a dialogue with...

As a work commissioned by Ensemble Reconsil taking South Africa as its theme, this composition conjures up a fantasy landscape by means of its symbolic musical language, its timbres and its quotations...

As a work commissioned by Ensemble Reconsil taking South Africa as its theme, this composition conjures up a fantasy landscape by means of its symbolic musical language, its timbres and its quotations...

Ming Wang's blend of Viennese compositional craft and eastern colour reaches full maturity in her sextet Vision, written especially for Ensemble Reconsil. Vision is about the quick alternation between...

No sooner had Ming Wang completed her apocalyptic chamber work Das siebente Siegel ('The Seventh Seal') than the global Coronavirus pandemic erupted. Individuals and families succumbed to panic: they...

The Zhuangzi, a 2000-year-old Daoist text by the Chinese philosopher 'Master Zhuang', is a large collection of anecdotes, allegories and fables, many of them picturesque and of great beauty. Verwandlu...

This fascinating work combines Chinese melodic roots with extreme European complexity.