Two works ask how music can move between cultures, technologies and the natural world. Dai Fujikura’s Green Tea Concerto brings the traverso into a contemporary setting of strings and harpsichord, allowing old instruments and new sensibilities to breathe together. Lou Harrison’s Piano Concerto brings the solo instrument into vivid dialogue with low brass, percussion, harp and strings, reflecting his singular synthesis of musical traditions.

Across the programme, sound becomes a current connecting past and present, human craft and the living environment.

PROGRAMME

DAI FUJIKURA
Green Tea Concerto

ERIC LAMB, solo flute
LIEN BOON HUA, conductor
CHIU PIN-HSIN, harpsichord
AUREITSEVICH NATALLIA and LIN YI-HSUAN, violins
KUNG YU-NING, viola
LIU YIDUO, cello
HUANG YUNG-TING, double bass

INTERLUDE

WAYAN RACHMAN, gender wayang

LOU HARRISON
Piano Concerto with Selected Orchestra

ALBERT TIU, solo piano
LIEN BOON HUA, conductor
ZHANG HANZHI, AUREITSEVICH NATALLIA, CHEN YI-TIEN, GAO WEI TINA, XU ZHUORUI and ZHAO TONGZHOU, violin I
LIN YI-HSUAN, NG EE-JUN, YIN CHEN ZIYUE, ANDREA LIN and JORIM SIM, violin II
KUNG YU-NING, LIU XUANYU, CLAUDIA KHANG LOO AN and CAITLIN CHIN KAI LI, violas
ASSENBAY ALAN, ZHU RUONING, LIU YIDUO and SHERZOD BAKHTIYOROV, cellos
HUANG YUNG-TING and LOEWE LIM LI TONG, double basses
LIU XIAOWEI, DON KOW and HENDRIK KWEK, trombones
CHRISTIAN DANIEL RAGAY BORRES, KUO YAN-SHIN, ISABEL CHIN CHUN EN and CAI JIAYING, percussion
ZENG YAN and CHARITY KIEW, harp