Tan Dun: Ghost Opera

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera
Studio album by Kronos Quartet and Wu Man
Released	14 March 1997
Recorded	January 1996
Genre	contemporary classical
Label	Nonesuch (#79445)
Producer	Judith Sherman
Kronos Quartet and Wu Man chronology
Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (1997) Tan Dun: Ghost Opera (1997) Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ) (1997)

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera is an album by the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man. The album contains five compositions by Chinese composer Tan Dun written in 1994^[1] for string quartet and pipa.^[2] As of 2011, the composition was still on the Quartet's program.^[3]

Track list

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Act I. Bach, Monks, and Shakespeare Meet in Water"	8:55
2.	"Act II. Earth Dance"	6:47
3.	"Act III. Dialogue with "Little Cabbage""	3:14
4.	"Act IV. Metal and Stone"	10:10
5.	"Act V. Song of Paper"	6:40

Personnel

Musicians

• David Harrington – violin, water bowl, bowed gong, vocals, one-stringed lute, cymbals, stones
• John Sherba – violin, paper whistle, vocals, cymbals, stones, one-stringed lute, bowed gong, waterbowl
• Hank Dutt – viola, vocals, cymbals, stones, bowed gong, water bowl
• Joan Jeanrenaud – cello, vocals, bowed gong, water bowl
• Wu Man – pipa, soprano voice, vocals, bowed gong, tam-tam, Tibetan bells, paper

See also

• Kronos Quartet discography

References

1. Winters, Ken (26 January 2011). "Tan Dun's Ghost Opera is fresh and hauntingly memorable - The Globe and Mail". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
2. Swed, Mark (29 June 1997). "A Sound as Magnetic as Hong Kong Itself; 'Symphony 1997' makes the colony's story universal by employing musical styles from around the world". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
3. McCallum, Peter (14 January 2011). "Kronos Quartet - Ghost Opera & A Chinese Home". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 26 March 2012.

External links

• Tan Dun: Ghost Opera