Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 won the Opus Klassik Chamber Music (trio) Awards 2019

 Opus Klassik Awards 2019- Chamber Music (trio)

An-lun Huang: Piano Trios 1 & 2

Bin Huang (violin), Alexander Suleiman (cello), Yubo Zhou (piano)

PREMIERE RECORDING An-lun Huang's piano trios dazzlingly demonstrate that contemporary music in no way has to be accessible only to a sworn community of experts. With his skill this Chinese-Canadian composer combines the best traditions from several world regions to produce a euphonious and harmonious whole - and does so with great class. The premiere ensemble for the Trio No. 2 from 2015 lends this first recording a special measure of authenticity. As a composer and as a teacher An-lin Huang is sought after throughout the world. His Chinese Rhapsody No. 2 marked the beginning of a breathtaking career: it was with this work that Huang's fellow Chinese musician Lang Lang played his way to the first prize in the youth section of the legendary Tchaikovsky Competition. Music is a tradition in the master's family: Huang's father was one of Paul Hindemith's last students at Yale.

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Poem for Dance No.2: A Duet for Piano and Cello

It’s a piece An-lun Huang dedicated to his professor Lothar Klein, the Canadian composer of University of Toronto. It was world premiered by Chinese musicians Li-ke Chang, Xiao-hong Fu and Xiao-mei Zhu at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston in 1982.

Created by An-lun Huang, “Poem for Dance” is a special music form for musicians and ballet dancers together appear on a stage. Of course, the music could be performed as a solo piece. Huang’s three “Poem for Dance” have been quite successful:

The no.1, for flute and piano, has been put on the stage of the National Ballet of Canada in 1984. It has also been also appointed as the official piece of the National Flute Competition of China, in 1984.

The no.3, for piano, has been also put on a stage of a New Yorker’s ballet. After its New York debut by Fei-ping Hsu at Carnegie Hall in1988, it has been appointed as the official piece of both of International Rubinstein Piano Competition of Israel and the Beijing International Piano Competition, China, early of 90’s last century.

The no.2 of the score in this edition, a Duet for Cello and Piano, after its Toronto debut on the stage of National Ballet of Canada, it was also been appointed as the official piece of both of the National Cello Competition of China and Taiwan in the 90th, last century.

In this piece, both of cello and piano get a well expression bringing into the music. It’s written in a sonata form without development. The musicality of meditation, tenderness, humorous and the irresistible willpower of the piece are all carefree lightsome catharsis through its dramatic contrast musical framework.

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Piano Trio No.1, Op. 30(1981) for Violin, Cello and Piano in 3 Movements

  This was the 1st composition An-lun Huang composed as he had been in the North America to continue his education since 1980. In this work, the homesick with the feeling of the new environment , the Chinese tradition he kept with the brand new experience of the Western modern music he learned, they all impacted together here and left some deep traces. Nevertheless, the character of Huang's music was not changed by the Western culture, on the contrary, his Chinese style has been raised up to a new level. He dedicated this trio to his close friends, the Canadian Authors John Fraser and Elizabeth MacCallum. As the pianist, he premiered this new work with cellist Li-ke Chang and violinist Xiao-hong Fu, the musicians of the Montreal Symphony, in Toronto the summer of 1981. In a short time, this trio has been wildly performed and warmly received because of its rich Chinese style, sincere emotion, strong and dramatic structure , deep and beautiful melody. To counter the tendency of the"total serialism" of the Western contemporary music, the critic of the "Toronto Globe and Mail" (the major newspaper of the city) wrote enthusiastically :" Huang's music from the heart." And the major music magazine, "Canadian Music", strongly pointed out that "(Huang's music)opens ) A NEW ERA !"

  The People's Music has published this trio in the 80's. As one of the Chinese master pieces of the past 100 years, it has been selected by a major state music publishing program in China, 2013.
This piano trio, in three movements, is structured in a traditional sonata format.

  The first movement, Andante, Allegro, is stroked by a strong, dramatic introduction. It's followed by a powerful sonata-allegro which expresses a kind of indomitable spirit. Through a intensive contrapuntal development, its delicate, meditative motive then becomes a rousing long roar.

  Expressing the composer's most conceal soliloquy, the second movement, Moderato, begins with a chain of meditative descending groups of notes. This emotion of melancholy homesick is ends on a deep sigh ,then quietly it's extended to the final movement.

  The third movement , Allegro, is a sonata rondo. The simple and unadorned theme of the the exposition sound's like a childers's folk rhymes taught by grandma; and the string's long melodic line accompanied by the piano's broken chords reminds some scene of the spray from hometown's pond. The music becomes a best whish to the composer's native land by the brilliant end of the trio.

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