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
Lost Civilization : for chamber ensemble / Man-Ching Donald Yu
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
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Rhombi : voor saxofoonkwartet, 1981 / Kees van Unen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
4sax
Average music III : for 4 instruments, 1979, (revision 1982) / Ernst Oosterveld
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Variable instrumentation; Saxophone
Scoring:
sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-b
Saxophone Quartet / Reza Nakisa
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
sax-s sax-a sax-ten sax-b
composition
Sensitivity : for saxophone quartet / Man-Ching Donald Yu
Description:
Sensitivity was written for Ardemus Saxophone Quartet. The music is inspired by a series of artworks by German contemporary artist Heike Schmidt. The artwork reflects the sensitivity of the artist’s inner conflicts of thoughts, feelings and emotions, and these are characterized by contrasted colors, lines and shapes in the artworks. Thus, the music expresses the duality of feelings and emotions in terms of different musical gestures, parameters and materials. Mysterious and meditative gestures feature the preliminary section, and yet occasionally juxtaposing with dramatic and contrasting materials during the course of the piece. Those materials develop and transform organically in a variety of stylistic manners in terms of pitch materials as well as rhythmic parameter. Generally speaking, the sustained and atmospheric materials in the piece correspond to the upper part of the artworks which are characterized by dense colors, while the dramatic, repetitive, and minimalistic materials correspond to the lower part of the artworks, in which lines and transparency are the key components.
Donald Yu