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Long Yu und das Shanghai Symphony Orchestra  mit Aaron Zigmans Émigré  – ab heute auf CD erhältlich

G&uuml;te und Liebe triumphieren &uuml;ber destruktive M&auml;chte in &Eacute;migr&eacute;, einem Oratorium in zwei Akten mit Musik von Aaron Zigman, einem Libretto von Mark Campbell und weiteren Texten von Brock Walsh. Das Werk, ein &raquo;musikalisches Fest des Mitgef&uuml;hls&laquo;, so China Daily, wurde vom Shanghai Symphony Orchestra (SSO), seinem Chefdirigenten Long Yu und den New Yorker Philharmonikern in Auftrag gegeben und von Deutsche Grammophon im Rahmen seiner Weltpremiere in Shanghai im November 2023 aufgenommen. Zu erleben sind 190 Musiker, darunter die Ten&ouml;re Matthew White und Arnold Livingston Geis, die Sopranistinnen Meigui Zhang und Diana Newman, die Mezzosopranistin Huiling Zhu sowie die Bassbaritone Shenyang und Andrew Dwan, &uuml;berdies Mitglieder des New York Philharmonic Chorus, des Lanzhou Concert Hall Choir und des SSO unter der Leitung von Long Yu.
&Eacute;migr&eacute; wurde im Februar digital ver&ouml;ffentlicht und Anfang Juni in der Kategorie Weltersteinspielung des Jahres f&uuml;r einen OPUS KLASSIK 2024 nominiert. Am heutigen 21. Juni 2024 erscheint das Album als 2-CD-Edition anl&auml;sslich des Weltfl&uuml;chtlingstages der Vereinten Nationen, der allj&auml;hrlich auf den 20. Juni f&auml;llt. Videos von zwei Nummern aus &Eacute;migr&eacute;, mitgeschnitten w&auml;hrend der halbszenischen US-Premiere in der New Yorker David Geffen Hall, sind ab sofort zu sehen: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iICpxQBj5fs">&raquo;In A Woman&rsquo;s Hands&laquo;</a> und &raquo;Shanghai&laquo;. Auf <a href="https://www.stage-plus.com/de/video/vod_concert_APNM8GRFDPHMASJKBSQJADO">STAGE+</a> wird die Auff&uuml;hrung in voller L&auml;nge ausgestrahlt. &raquo;Deep Dives&laquo; &uuml;ber die Musik, den historischen Kontext von &Eacute;migr&eacute; sowie die Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem SSO und den New Yorker Philharmonikern erscheinen ebenfalls auf STAGE+. DG ver&ouml;ffentlicht Ausz&uuml;ge daraus auf YouTube und ihren Medienkan&auml;len.
Chinas beispiellose Entscheidung, seine Grenzen f&uuml;r j&uuml;dische Fl&uuml;chtlinge zu &ouml;ffnen, als ihr Leben im faschistischen Europa der Vernichtung anheimgestellt war, inspirierte &Eacute;migr&eacute;. Zwischen 1938 und 1941 nahm Shanghai etwa 20&nbsp;000 Juden aus Deutschland, &Ouml;sterreich und Polen auf. Die kosmopolitische Hafenstadt, sp&auml;ter die &raquo;Arche Noah des Orients&laquo; genannt, wurde zum Zufluchtsort f&uuml;r viele &ndash; darunter herausragende Musiker, die einen Platz im multinationalen Shanghai Symphony Orchestra fanden.
Long Yu initiierte das Projekt und wandte sich an Aaron Zigman, mit dem er zuvor an dem Klavierkonzert Tango Manos zusammengearbeitet hatte. Zigman ist einem Millionenpublikum als Komponist von Film- und TV-Soundtracks bekannt, darunter Wie ein einziger Tag, Wakefield &ndash; Dein Leben ohne dich und die Serie Sex and the City. Der Komponist entwarf ein erstes Szenario, das er dann zusammen mit Mark Campbell, Librettist von Opern und Musicals sowie Gewinner eines Grammy Awards und Tr&auml;ger des Pulitzerpreises f&uuml;r Musik, zu einem 90-min&uuml;tigen Oratorium weiterentwickelte. Auch der Songwriter Brock Walsh schrieb Texte f&uuml;r das St&uuml;ck.
Die Geschichte, die mit einem Chor er&ouml;ffnet, der j&uuml;dische, christliche und buddhistische Gebete f&uuml;r den Frieden enth&auml;lt, spielt in der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs und erz&auml;hlt von zwei j&uuml;dischen Br&uuml;dern, die nach der Kristallnacht im November 1938 in Shanghai ankommen. Als sich einer von ihnen in ein chinesisches M&auml;dchen verliebt, sind ihre Familien gegen die Beziehung. Letztlich erkennen sie jedoch, dass das, was sie als Menschen verbindet, schwerer wiegt als alle kulturellen oder politischen Unterschiede.
&raquo;&Eacute;migr&eacute; zeigt, wie Menschen in schwierigen Zeiten zusammenkommen k&ouml;nnen&laquo;, sagt Long Yu. &raquo;Es ist unser aller Aufgabe, dar&uuml;ber nachzudenken, wie wir eine Beziehung zu anderen finden. Ich habe mit Musikern aus der ganzen Welt zusammengearbeitet, ohne mich jemals zu fragen, woher sie kommen. Musik ist unsere gemeinsame Sprache, die beste Sprache f&uuml;r eine Botschaft der Hoffnung.&laquo;

Long Yu presents 'The Song of the Earth'

Centuries-old Chinese poetry is brought vividly to life in a new recording from Long Yu and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. We announce their second album for DG 'The Song of the Earth', recorded in Shanghai with soloists Michelle DeYoung, Brian Jagde, Zhang Liping and Shenyang. It pairs Gustav Mahler&rsquo;s symphonic song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde (&ldquo;The Song of the Earth&rdquo;), based on German translations of six ancient Chinese poems, with the world premiere recording of Xiaogang Ye&rsquo;s settings of the same texts in the original Mandarin.
The album is released today, 9 July 2021.

Long Yu presents new album 'The Song of the Earth'

Centuries-old Chinese poetry is brought vividly to life in a new recording from Long Yu and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. We announce their second album for DG The Song of the Earth, recorded in Shanghai with soloists Michelle DeYoung, Brian Jagde, Zhang Liping and Shenyang. It pairs Gustav Mahler&rsquo;s symphonic song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde (&ldquo;The Song of the Earth&rdquo;), based on German translations of six ancient Chinese poems, with the world premiere recording of Xiaogang Ye&rsquo;s settings of the same texts in the original Mandarin.
The album is set for release on 9 July 2021. Listen to the first pre-release track Ye: Feelings upon Awakening from Drunkenness on a Spring Day <a href="http://dgt.link/sso-mahler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now</a>!
Long Yu is passionate both about breaking down barriers between different cultures and about promoting new music by contemporary composers from China and across the world. He has brought international orchestras and a wide range of western classical music to China, toured the West with Chinese orchestras, and commissioned dozens of works from composers as varied as Qigang Chen, Tan Dun, Philip Glass and Krzysztof Penderecki.
The conductor spent a decade in Germany at the start of his career and has always felt an affinity with the music of Mahler. Recognising the contemporary resonance of the texts sung in Das Lied von der Erde, he decided some years ago to invite Xiaogang Ye, one of China&rsquo;s leading composers (b.&nbsp;1955), to write a modern companion piece that would capture the nuances of the original poems from a 21st-century Chinese perspective. Ye too has a foot in two worlds, having studied composition at Beijing&rsquo;s Central Conservatory of Music and at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and much of his output is influenced by or contains ancient Chinese texts.
A masterpiece that emerged from the shadow of personal tragedy, Das Lied von der Erde probes the emotions arising from life&rsquo;s pleasures, hopes and fears, and from an awareness of its fragility. After suffering the death of his eldest daughter and being forced to resign as Director of Vienna&rsquo;s Court Opera following a politically motivated, anti-Semitic campaign against him, Mahler was diagnosed with the heart problem that was to shorten his life.
He found solace in Die chinesische Fl&ouml;te (The Chinese Flute), Hans Bethge&rsquo;s free translation of a French-language edition of verse written during China&rsquo;s Tang dynasty (618-907 CE). Mahler chose seven of these poems to set for two soloists and orchestra, his music covering every mood from drunken hedonism to a calm acceptance of death in the knowledge that nature will continue to renew itself.
Xiaogang Ye&rsquo;s familiarity with the Chinese language led him to rearrange the order of the texts and compose the more optimistic response heard in The Song of the Earth, written in 2005, almost a century after the Mahler. &ldquo;In my opinion,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;Mahler&rsquo;s music is full of disillusionment, but my work expresses a middle-aged man remaining ambitious about the world.&rdquo; And, as Long Yu notes, Ye&rsquo;s conclusion echoes the mood of the close of Das Lied von der Erde: &ldquo;You can hear that the last piece of the Mahler, &lsquo;Der Abschied&rsquo; and the last piece in the Chinese work both purvey exactly the same emotion.&rdquo;
Mezzo Michelle DeYoung and tenor Brian Jagde respond to the many and varied vocal demands of the Mahler with assured artistry and understanding of the work&rsquo;s psychological depth, while soprano Liping Zhang and baritone Shenyang likewise prove themselves equal to the challenges of the Ye which, as The Guardian noted after its UK premiere, employs &ldquo;vocal techniques that swing seamlessly from the sustained notes of western Lieder to the controlled swoops of Chinese opera&rdquo;. The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Long Yu, provide virtuoso playing in both works, bringing out every detail in crystalline clarity. Ye&rsquo;s orchestration is particularly diverse and includes a large array of percussion, traditional Chinese instruments among them, as well as conventional western orchestral instruments.
&ldquo;For many years I have dreamed of presenting Mahler&rsquo;s masterwork together with settings in the original Chinese that convey what their emotions mean to a native speaker,&rdquo; concludes Long Yu. &ldquo;Xiaogang Ye understood this idea and has composed an exquisite counterpart to Das Lied von der Erde. Although we live today in a world that has never been more connected, we see widening divisions and growing conflict between countries. The different ways in which Mahler and Ye approach the same emotions have much to tell us about our shared human experience and about the importance of seeing the world from the other&rsquo;s perspective. I was delighted when Deutsche Grammophon agreed to record both works.&rdquo;

Live From The Forbidden City - DG 120 Anniversary Concert

Filmed and recorded live in front of the magnificent scenery of Beijing's Forbidden City, this unique gala concert held in celebration of Deutsche Grammophon's 120th Anniversary features conductor Long Yu and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, both freshly signed as exclusive recording artists to Deutsche Grammophon. Joined by soloists Aida Garifullina, Toby Spence and Ludovic T&eacute;zier, the evening crowned by Orff's Carmina Burana was the first classical performance to be staged at the UNESCO World Heritage site in 20 years. The concert is released digitally as well as on CD and DVD / Blu-ray Disc, of which the audio-visual release features additional performances of works by Max Richter and Sergei Rachmaninov with violinist Mari Samuelsen and pianist Daniil Trifonov. Now available.
Listen <a href="https://dg.lnk.to/OrffBeijing">here</a>.
Watch on <a href="https://dg.lnk.to/BeijingDVD">DVD </a>, <a href="https://dg.lnk.to/BeijingBD">Blu-ray</a> or <a href="https://music.apple.com/de/album/orff-carmina-burana-live-from-the-forbidden-city/1448320962">Apple Music</a>.

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Zigman: Émigré

&lsquo;&Eacute;migr&eacute;&rsquo;, an oratorio in two acts with music by Aaron Zigman, which was carefully developed over a period of five years, deals with a little-known chapter of the Second World War: the reception of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe by the inhabitants of Shanghai in the 1930s. It tells a story in which kindness and love triumph over destructive historical forces. The oratorio has a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Campbell, with additional lyrics by Brock Walsh. It is the fifth project to emerge from DG's exclusive and fruitful agreement with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Long Yu. The recording was released digitally earlier this year, and now "&Eacute;migr&eacute;" is released on CD.

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DG China releases the first four recordings from its complete Shostakovich symphony cycle, performed by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Long Yu.
As the first Chinese orchestra to record the complete cycle of Shostakovich&rsquo;s symphonies, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will present all 15 works over the course of four seasons, beginning in 2025. The project offers a dedicated interpretation of Shostakovich&rsquo;s complete symphonic legacy and will culminate in 2029, when the complete recorded cycle will be released to mark the 150th anniversary of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to the digital release, Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 and 9 are presented as a commemorative 3-LP vinyl box set. Closely connected with the Soviet Union&rsquo;s &ldquo;Great Patriotic War&rdquo;, these three works form Shostakovich&rsquo;s distinctive War Trilogy and stand among the most representative symphonic works capturing the profound psychological experiences of humanity in wartime.
The four albums are available digitally.

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