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Shen Lu - Watercolor (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Shen Lu - Watercolor (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Shen Lu - Watercolor (2015)
FLAC tracks 24bit/96kHz | Digital Booklet | 970MB + 5% Recovery
Studio Master, Official Digital Download, Steinway & Sons

From Steinway & Sons' growing catalog of personal and beautifully recorded piano recitals comes this one from Chinese pianist Shen Lu, whose training includes stints in Beijing, Boston, and Cleveland. Chinese musicians are said to be seeking out American teachers as a way of adding freedom and originality to their thinking, and that seems to be what's happening here. Some might find more crackling versions of, say, Ravel's Miroirs than the one delivered here by Shen, but it fits in with the rest of the program in a way that keeps listeners absorbed to a degree than another instance of mechanistic virtuosity might not. The program maintains a theme of "impressionistic" depiction, filtering it through the East/West divide and through subdivisions of each. It's nice to compare the technically similar but emotionally quite different depictions of rippling water in Chen Peixun's folk-based Autumn Moon on a Calm Lake (track 1) and Une barque sur l'océan of Ravel (track 4). The unusual work here is the set of Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1, of Tan Dun, written just as China was reopening to the West after the Cultural Revolution. Rachmaninov's rather Russian-flavored Etudes Tableaux, Op. 33, are arguably more exotic to Western ears than Tan Dun's mood-oriented landscape miniatures. They're quite different from what those familiar with Tan Dun's large orchestral canvases might expect, but their concision pointed the way to the composer's future success. Chinese music has reached a point where listeners worldwide can follow the course of a composer's career as they do with those in the West, and that's just one of the intriguing features of this enjoyable culture-crossing release.
Track List

Chen Peixun
01. Autumn Moon on a Calm Lake (4:08)

Maurice Ravel
Miroirs, M. 43
02. Noctuelles (4:47)
03. Oiseaux tristes (3:45)
04. Une barque sur l'océan (6:52)
05. Alborada del gracioso (5:47)
06. La vallée des cloches (5:00)

Sergei Rachmaninov
Études-tableaux, Op. 33
07. No. 1 in F Minor (2:42)
08. No. 2 in C Major (2:22)
09. No. 3 in C Minor (5:13)
10. No. 4 in D Minor (3:10)
11. No. 5 in E-Flat Minor (1:43)
12. No. 6 in E-Flat Major (1:53)
13. No. 7 in G Minor (3:43)
14. No. 8 in C-Sharp Minor (2:47)

Tan Dun
Eight Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1
15. 1. Missing Moon (2:40)
16. 2. Staccato Beans (1:23)
17. 3. Herdboy's Song (1:45)
18. 4. Blue Nun (1:13)
19. 5. Red Wilderness (1:45)
20. 6. Ancient Burial (1:58)
21. 7. Floating Clouds (1:48)
22. 8. Sunrain (1:16 )

Recorded with ADC Metric Halo ULN-8 and DPA 4006 microphones

Shen Lu - grand piano Steinway D

Produced by Dan Merceruio


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Analyzed: Shen Lu / Watercolor
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -1.67 dB -22.71 dB 4:11 1/22-(Autumn Moon on a Calm Lake (Arr. Peixun Chen for Piano)) - Autumn Moon on a Calm Lake (Arr. Peixun Chen for Piano)
DR15 -0.21 dB -21.99 dB 4:47 2/22-(Miroirs, M. 43) - No. 1, Noctuelles
DR16 -3.85 dB -26.69 dB 3:45 3/22-(Miroirs, M. 43) - No. 2, Oiseaux tristes
DR14 -0.20 dB -19.82 dB 6:47 4/22-(Miroirs, M. 43) - No. 3, Une barque sur l'océan
DR14 -0.21 dB -19.41 dB 6:05 5/22-(Miroirs, M. 43) - No. 4, Alborada del gracioso
DR14 -9.38 dB -28.85 dB 5:03 6/22-(Miroirs, M. 43) - No. 5, La vallée des cloches
DR13 -1.19 dB -19.25 dB 2:42 7/22-(Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33) - No. 1 in F Minor
DR13 -1.54 dB -20.34 dB 2:21 8/22-(Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33) - No. 2 in C Major
DR16 -0.21 dB -23.76 dB 5:04 9/22-(Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33) - No. 3 in C Minor
DR13 -0.47 dB -19.11 dB 2:58 10/22-(Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33) - No. 4 in D Minor
DR12 -0.21 dB -17.62 dB 1:46 11/22-(Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33) - No. 5 in E-Flat Minor
DR12 -0.20 dB -14.98 dB 1:53 12/22-(Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33) - No. 6 in E-Flat Major
DR13 -0.21 dB -21.00 dB 3:39 13/22-(Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33) - No. 7 in G Minor
DR10 -0.21 dB -12.90 dB 2:33 14/22-(Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33) - No. 8 in C-Sharp Minor
DR14 -6.10 dB -27.25 dB 2:41 15/22-(8 Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1) - No. 1, Missing Moon
DR14 -0.43 dB -18.33 dB 1:24 16/22-(8 Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1) - No. 2, Staccato Beans
DR13 -9.13 dB -27.31 dB 1:44 17/22-(8 Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1) - No. 3, Herdboy's Song
DR11 -8.21 dB -24.94 dB 1:14 18/22-(8 Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1) - No. 4, Blue Nun
DR14 -0.20 dB -20.48 dB 1:46 19/22-(8 Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1) - No. 5, Red Wilderness
DR13 -0.21 dB -18.82 dB 1:56 20/22-(8 Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1) - No. 6, Ancient Burial
DR12 -10.67 dB -27.09 dB 1:50 21/22-(8 Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1) - No. 7, Floating Clouds
DR12 -0.21 dB -15.75 dB 1:22 22/22-(8 Memories in Watercolor, Op. 1) - No. 8, Sunrain
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Number of tracks: 22
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2179 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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