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Formosa Quartet

From Hungary to Taiwan

Bridge Records

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06/17/2019 - Wilfred Laurier University / Waterloo, ON
07/22/2019 - Piedmont Chamber Music Festival / Piedmont, CA
07/23/2019 - Piedmont Chamber Music Festival / Piedmont, CA
07/24/2019 - Piedmont Chamber Music Festival / Piedmont, CA
07/25/2019 - Piedmont Chamber Music Festival / Piedmont, CA
07/26/2019 - Piedmont Chamber Music Festival / Piedmont, CA
07/27/2019 - Piedmont Chamber Music Festival / Piedmont, CA
07/28/2019 - Piedmont Chamber Music Festival / Piedmont, CA
08/03/2019 - Taipei National University of the Arts / Taipai, Taiwan
08/09/2019 - National Concert Hall / Taipai, Taiwan
10/23/2019 - Aspect Foundation / New York, NY
10/25/2019 - Twin Oaks Estate / Washington, DC
10/26/2019 - Freer and Sackler Galleries / Washington, DC
10/27/2019 - Brooklyn Public Library / Brooklyn, NY
11/17/2019 - UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music / Los Angeles, CA
1 Wilson: Hungarian Folk Songs - Dudatanc
2 Ballada
3 A Ratoti Legenyek
4 Lancz, Lancz
5 Porondos Viz Martjan
6 Ej Gorbenye
7 Maramarosi Tancok
8 Nechocze Ty, Hanulienka Z Rana Do Trna
9 Liang: Song Recollections
10 Bartok: String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 - Allegro
11 Prestissimo, con sordino
12 Non troppo lento
13 Allegretto pizzicato
14 Allegro molto
15 Lin: Four Taiwanese Folk Songs - Seaport Goodbye
16 Hengchun Folksong
17 Dark Sky
18 Rain Night Flower
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From Hungary to Taiwan is a milestone album from the award-winning Formosa Quartet. Released by Bridge Records, the album pairs three imaginative new works with Béla Bartók's towering Fourth String Quartet, a nod to the group's Taiwanese heritage and a celebration of "folk", in every sense of the word.

The program juxtaposes two pairs: Hungarian folk music in two representations, and Taiwanese folk music in two representations. Formosa Quartet decided to commission composers Dana Wilson, Lei Liang, and Wei-Chieh Lin to create this fascinating view of cultural identity.

  • Formosa Quartet - From Hungary to Taiwan is the KUSC: Download of the Week
    Posted At: February 7, 2019 12:00 AM

    Formed in 2002 when the four founding members came together for a concert tour of Taiwan, Formosa Quartet is deeply committed to championing Taiwanese music and promoting the arts in the land of its heritage, as well as exploring diverse and adventurous mediums for string quartet. Their new album, From Hungary To Taiwan, is an imaginative recording project, offering virtuoso treatment of folk music From ...
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  • Formosa Quartet - From Hungary to Taiwan makes 'WQXR Best Classical New Releases of January 2019'
    Posted At: January 31, 2019 12:00 AM

    On From Hungary to Taiwan, the Formosa Quartet compress the 5,500-mile trek from Budapest to Taipei into a breezy, hour-and-23-minute survey of the countries' respective folk traditions. Three of the album's four pieces - Dana Wilson's Hungarian Folk Songs, Wei-Chieh Lin's Five Taiwanese Folk Songs and Lei Liang's Song Recollections - were commissioned for the project and, like the fourth, Bartók'...
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  • Formosa Quartet 'From Hungary to Taiwan' is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: January 15, 2019 12:00 AM

    This imaginative recording project offers virtuoso treatment of folk music from Hungary and Taiwan, illuminating many aspects of the two cultures, all within beautifully rendered new classical compositions.  In addition, the recording incorporates one of the masterpieces of 20th-century string quartet music – Bartok's incandescent String Quartet No. 4. Winners of both the First Prize and Amade...
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