Discography
SOLO DISCS
SIX SEASONS (UPCOMING)
New World Records, 2023
A cycle of six movements and a coda, Six Seasons (2022) is as protean as the ocean waters that serve as its substance and underlying metaphor.
At the heart of Liang’s vision is an all-inclusive and ever-evolving concept of presence in dynamism. When describing the experience of performing and recording Six Seasons, it is the idea most often revisited by the Mivos Quartet. To be present as listener, as reactor, performer, and planetary citizen is paramount. Liang’s goal is to create a totality, an experience to be shared in a common space.
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HEARING LANDSCAPES /
HEARING ICESCAPES
New Focus, fcr360, 2023
Acclaimed composer Lei Liang releases Hearing Landscapes/Hearing Icescapes, a multidisciplinary diptych that marries diverse areas of inquiry into Chinese landscape painting and folk song, oceanography, software development, earth science, and underwater acoustics. The result are two inspiring linked works that employ these varied methodologies to explore our relationship to and sonic experience with our planet.
INHERITANCE
Albany Records, TROY1819, 2020
Libretto by Matt Donovan. Susan Narucki, Kirsten Ashley Wiest, Hillary Jean Young, Josue Ceron; Steven Schick, conductor. Liner notes by Jann Pasler.
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A THOUSAND MOUNTAINS, A MILLION STREAMS BMOP/sound, 1061, 2018
Xiaoxiang (concerto for saxophone and orchestra), Chien-Kwan Lin, saxophone; Five Seasons (concerto for pipa and string orchestra), Gao Hong, pipa; A Thousand Mountains, A Million Streams (for orchestra). Liner notes by Robert Kirzinger.
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor.
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LUMINOUS
New World Records, 80764-2, 2016
Verge Quartet (Formosa Quartet); Trans (Steven Schick, percussion); The moon is following us (Aleck Karis); Inkscape (The Third Coast Percussion; Daniel Schlosberg, piano; Michael Lewanski, conductor); Luminous (Mark Dresser, contrabass solo; Palimpsest Ensemble; Steven Schick, conductor). Liner notes by Robert Kirzinger.
Funded in part through grants from the Alice M. Ditson Fund and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.
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BAMBOO LIGHTS
Bridge Records, Bridge 9425, 2014
Serashi Fragments, Gobi Gloria (JACK Quartet); Lakescape (Tony Arnold, Aiyun Huang, Thomas Rosenkranz); Lakescape II (Rootstock Percussion); Lake (Awea Duo); Listening for Blossoms (Cicada Chamber Ensemble); Bamboo Lights (Callithumpian Consort, Stephen Drury, conductor). Liner notes by Yayoi Uno Everett.
Funded in part through a grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.
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VERGE
Naxos, 8.572839, 2012
Verge (Palimpsest Ensemble; Steven Schick, conductor); Aural Hypothesis (The Callithumpian Consort; Stephen Drury, conductor); Five Seasons (Wu Man, pipa; Shanghai Quartet); Tremors of a Memory Chord (Pi-hsien Chen, piano; Taipei Chinese Orchestra; En Shao, conductor). Liner Notes by Lei Liang.
MILOU
New World Records, 80715, 2011
Ascension (brass quintet and percussion; Meridian Arts Ensemble); A Journey into Desire (Pablo Gómez, guitar); Winged Creatures - A Cadenza for Harpsichord (Takae Ohnishi, harpsichord; Kate Hatmaker, Jeff Zehngut, violins; Chia-Ling Chien, cello); YUAN (saxophone quartet; The Radnofsky Quartet); Lake (2 flutes; John Fonville, Jane Rigler, flutes); Harp Concerto (harp and chamber orchestra; Manhattan Sinfonietta; June Han, harp; Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor); Milou (chamber ensemble). Liner notes by Yayoi Uno Everett.
Funded in part through grants from the Alice M. Ditson Fund and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.
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Serashi Fragments (Arditti Quartet); Some Empty Thoughts of a Person from Edo (Takae Ohnishi, harpsichord solo); Memories of Xiaoxiang (saxophone and tape; Chien-Kwan Lin, alto saxophone); Trio (piano, cello and percussion; Callithumpian Consort); In Praise of Shadows (Paula Robison, flute solo); My Windows (Aleck Karis, piano solo); Brush-Stroke (Callithumpian Consort; Stephen Drury, conductor). Liner notes by Yayoi Uno Everett.
Funded in part through a grant from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc.
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MARCH CATHEDRAL
Encounter Records, 2000
Against Piano (1 piano with two pianists); Garden Eight (piano solo); Garden Six (6 saxophones); Dialectal Percussions (percussion solo); Feng (cello solo); Extend (guanzi and alto saxophone); Garden Nine (12 voices, piano and percussion); Other Encounter. Bao Jian, guanzi; Lenny Bretton, Eric Hewitt, Conrad Kline, Shyen Lee, Chien-Kwan Lin, Samuel Lorber,Ken Radnovsky, Greg Ridlington, Oliver Schneller, saxophones; Van Weng, electric guitar; Feng Hew, cello; Lei Liang, piano, harpsichord; Jung Mi Lee, Jon Sakata, pianos; Christopher DeChiara, Jeremy Friedman, Phillip Kiamie, Matthew Masie, Eric Millstein, Mei Ying Ng, John Spirtas, Gary Wallen, percussion; Tamara Brooks/New England Conservatory Chamber Singers.
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COMPILATION DISCS
CROSSINGS: Contemporary Music for Chinese Instruments
Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, Albany Records, 2017
Lakescape IV
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ON THE CUTTING EDGE: New Music from Contact!
New York Philharmonic
Magnus Lindberg, conductor, 2010.
Verge (for 18 solo strings).
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FLUE
Einstein Records, EIN 021, 2010
Lake (for 2 flutes). John Fonville, Kathleen Gallegher, flutes.
ANTIPHONY
PRISM Quartet: Music From China
Innova Records, Innova 767, 2010
YUAN (saxophone quartet).
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INTERSECTIONS
Spektral Records, SRL4-08039, 2009
Memories of Xiaoxiang (alto saxophone and tape), Eliot Gattegno.
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EXTENSION: Guanzi and Sheng
TT-Art, 2010
Motion Parallel (guanzi and sheng - Chinese oboe and Chinese mouthorgan); Bao Jian, guanzi (Chinese oboe); Hu Jianbing, sheng (mouth organ).
HEAVY UP / HEAVY DOWN
Yesaroun' DuoGM Recordings, GM2077CD, 2008
Parts for a Floating Space (saxophone and percussion).
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A HARPSICHORD RECITAL: Takae Ohnishi
Opal Records, ORH-1311, 2001)
Some Empty Thoughts of a Person from Edo (harpsichord solo).
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Saxowatdeekrap
Shyen Music, CDP-11001, 2011
Memories of Xiaoxiang, Shyen Lee (alto saxophone).
Sonic Landscape
Dufy Atelir, 2019
The Tree Rings, Stanley Wong (piano).
AS PRODUCER
The Commemorative Edition of the Mongolian Chaorer Player Serashi
China Record Corporation: CRC CCD-2455, 2005
Produced by Lei Liang and Wang Yin-yin.
J.S. BACH: COMPLETE SONATAS FOR VIOLA & HARPSICHORD
Takae Ohnishi, Harpsichord
Che-Yen Chen, Viola
Aeolian Classics, 0002, 2016
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J.S. BACH: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
Takae Ohnishi, Harpsichord
Bridge Records (Bridge, 9357, 2012)
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