TAN DUN

 

Water Concerto

 

Water Percussionists:

David Cossin (Solo)

Rika Fujii

Tamao Inano

 

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra / Tan Dun

 

Bonus material: Short Film – Water: The Tears of Nature

Tan Dun Teaches Water Instruments

Recorded live at the Stockholm International Composer’s Festival, Stockholm Concert Hall on 8th November 2007

 

Tan Dun’s hypnotic three-movement Water Concerto is intoxicating, both visually and aurally. Using water as a musical instrument, this extraordinary piece uses innovative techniques to explore the musicality of the sounds of water. Virtuoso percussionist and soloist David Cossin displays remarkable genius as he deftly creates unique, sensuous, organic and sometimes celestial sounds using a range of water-based instruments. Conducted by the composer, the distinctive accompaniment of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, reflecting Dun’s personal combination of Chinese and Western musical traditions, is

carefully interwoven and combined with the water percussion to produce a uniquely enchanting performance.

 

‘This work was one of the most astonishing pieces of music that I’ve ever heard.’ The Australian

 

‘Organic music concerns both matters of everyday life and matters of the heart. These ideas find their origin in the animistic notion that material objects have spirits residing in them, an idea ever present in the old village where I grew up in China. Paper can talk to the violin, the violin to water. Water can communicate with trees, and trees with the moon, and so on. In other words, every little thing in the totality of things, the entire universe, has a life and a soul.’ Tan Dun

 

Running time: 67 mins

Region code: All regions

Picture format: 16:9 Anamorphic / 4:3 (extras)

Sound format: 5.1 Dolby Surround / Dolby Stereo

Menu language: EN Subtitles (extra features) EN/FR/DE/ES/IT

 

BBC Opus Arte DVD OA1014D