composer
Man-Ching Donald Yu, Hong Kong born composer and pianist. The style of his recent music is characterized by amalgamation of post-minimalist and modernist traits which refine his latest personal voice, ...
related works
Nine Dragons : for piano / Man-Ching Donald Yu
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Tempo impetuoso d’estate sull’ esempio di Vivaldi : for ensemble / Elmer Schönberger
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
cl h perc pf/cemb 2vn vla vc db
Urban Turban : Version for flute and marimba / Ned McGowan
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl mar
composition
Lost Civilization : for chamber ensemble / Man-Ching Donald Yu
Description:
The piece is inspired by the Chinese modern artist Zhang Guanghai’s painting Lost Civilization. It is the first time to associate music with the particular painting. The beginning of the music initiates with haunting dissonances generated by strings as well as chromatically-blended woodwind sections, symbolizing the dark and profound color characterized in the painting. Gradually surging into the climax at the dramatic and micropolyphonic-oriented central section where all the instruments culminate at high registrations, here the music imaginarily generalizes the motion of the bird in the painting. After finishing the climax, the music transforms into a rather mysterious moment where harmonics take place at the strings, featuring the gaps and lines emerged in the painting. Besides symbolizing the painting, the music reflects my intrigued profound feeling towards the recent political situation in Hong Kong where only true democratic freedoms are strived for as if the bird in the painting surges into the sky, but not being controlled and bounded by the dark boundaries. All in all, the music is characterized by the utilization of extensive chromatic elements as elaborated melodic lines and micropolyphonic elements, while fusing with harmonics, dissonance and Chinese color including Peking operatic effect.
Man-Ching Donald Yu