related works

Swing Low : for soprano saxophone and piano / Donald Yu

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone and keyboard instrument
Scoring: s-sax pf

Symfonie no. 1 : voor orkest, opus 27, 1978 (revisie: 1979) / Peter Schat

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 3fl(pic) 2ob(ob-am) ob(eh) 3cl cl-b 3fg cfg 4h 2trp trp(trp-pic) 3trb 2tb timp 4perc 2hp mouth-org str

Le café de nuit : for orchestra / Jan-Peter de Graaff

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc hp pf cel str

Levenszomer : phantasie voor orkest, opus 21, 1903 / Johan Wagenaar

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 3fl 2ob 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb timp hp str

composition

Unravelling : for orchestra / Man-Ching Yu Donald

Author(s):
Yu, Donald (Composer)
Description:
Recently I have been obsessed with consciousness which is one of the profoundest mysteries in modern science among human beings. Some scientists believe that consciousness is not only limited to our physical brain activities, but it is also a part of the spiritual force and nature that transcends space and time existing in cosmos, and that its existence is separated from our physical body. In some cases, higher form of consciousness has been experienced in another dimension of reality when travelling out of our physical body. The music reflects my personal feeling towards the mystical realms of consciousness. Throughout the piece, economic use of pitches, the gradual participation of different pitches in different layers by canonic procedure along with various suspended dramatic changes and transformations of musical elements, are the prominent feature describing the transcendence of consciousness in suspended time and space.
Donald Yu