"Asia"
Chia-Fen Wu, soprano (Taiwan)
Yu-Hsiang Hsieh, baritone (Taiwan)
Hein Boterberg, piano
Programme:
Maurice Ravel - from Shéhérazade part 1: Asie (Tristan Klingsor)
Folk songs from China
Guo Song - Boatmen's song on the Usuri river
Ching Chu - I live at the source of the Changjiang river
Shi Shin-Hai - An ode to the yellow river
Granville Bantock
from Songs from the Chinese poets set 1
Under the moon (LI-Tai-Po / Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng)
from Songs from the Chinese poets set 3
Yung Yang (Bai Juyi / Launcelot Alfred Cranmer -Byng)
from Songs of the East V: Songs of India
Prayer to Vishnu (Helen Maude Francesca Bantock)
By the Ganges (Helen Maude Francesca Bantock)
from Songs of the East IV: Songs of Persia
The Simurgh (Helen Maude Francesca Bantock)
Interval
Robert Schumann - uit Myrten: Talismane (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Franz Schubert - Suleika 1 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Robert Schumann - uit Myrten: Aus den Ostlichen Rosen (Friedrich Rückert)
Franz Schubert - Suleika 2 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Folk songs from Japan
Kosaku Yamada - The red dragonfly
Traditional folk song: Sakura (Cherry flower)
Folk songs from Taiwan and China
Lu Chung-Sheng - The bottom of wine cups is not for breeding goldfish (drinking song)
Yang San-Lan - I yearn for your return
Tse Huang (China) - The three wishes of the rose
De-Chu Hsu (China) - Ye Li Luo
Chin-Huai Wu / Tai-Hao Ran - The dark moon