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“Fall of Baghdad”
A String Quartet Album by Ge Gan-ru
Naxos 8.570603, 2009
String Quartet No. 1: Fu-Prose Poem
String Quartet No. 4: Angel Suite
String Quartet No. 5: Fall of Baghdad
Played by ModernWorks |
“Lost Style”
A Chamber Music Album by Ge Gan-ru
New Albion NA-134, 2006
Four Studies of Peking Opera
(quintet for piano & string quartet),
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! (for voice self-
accompanied by a toy ensemble),
Yi Feng – Lost Style (for solo cello)
Played by Shanghai Quartet, Kathryn Woodard, Margaret Leng Tan, Frank Su Huang |
“Chinese Rhapsody”
An Orchestral Album by Ge Gan-ru
BIS 1509, 2005
Chinese Rhapsody (for orchestra)
“Wu” – Rising to Heights (for Piano & Orchestra)
Six Pentatonic Tunes (for orchestra)
Jose Serebrier, conductor
Margaret Leng Tan, piano
Royal Scottish National Orchestra |
“Ge Gan-ru is China’s first avant-garde composer”. – The New Grove Dictionary
“(Ge Gan-ru) is fully in control of his craft. His Chinese Rhapsody is an orchestrational tour de force worthy of Stravinsky or Villa-Lobos at their most dazzling”. – The Gramophone
“The way he (Ge Gan-ru) used the unorthodox techniques of Western experimental music to evoke the ritualistic sounds and gestures of ancient Chinese musical idioms seemed unprecedented.” – The New York Times
“(Wu – Rising to Heights is) one of the most sheerly beautiful 20th century works … for utter aural beauty – for no other word will do – Wu stands for itself.” – South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
“(Ge Gan-ru) is a rare and brilliant talent, one whose work should find a place in most collections.” – CD HotList
“Fall of Baghdad is one of the best recordings Naxos has made of anything.” – Allmusic.com
“His (Ge Gan-ru’s) music is intriguing, skillful set down and grateful to the ears.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“Ge Gan-ru writes in an immediately identifiable, intriguingly personal style ,,, exciting and ravishing… beautiful ,,, vigorous … ferocious, witty …” – ClassicsToday.com
“(Ge Gan-ru) is an absolute master, clearly a composer of international standing.” – International Record Review
“If you are serious about creative encounters, observe Ge Gan-ru.” – The Independent, London
