Tan Dun - Bitter Love: Songs from Peony Pavilion

Peter Sellar's staging of the controversial opera Peony Pavillion, featuring an original score by composer/conductor Tan Dun, was performed in the U.S. for the 1st time this spring after a very high-profile international tour. Fusing Chinese melodies with rock, Tan Dun's operatic score is an inspired blend of kunquo, Tibetan and western chants, arias, instruments and rhythms. The LA Times describes the music as "an outpouring of lyric melody... ecstatic, ravishing... "

1) Against Time of Desire
2) I Once Dreamed
3) Moist with Sweat
4) Nchica
5) Gentle Showers
6) How Sweet This Incense!
7) It Is a Ghost!
8) Your Solemn Vow
9) Can It Be True
10) This Is My Fear
11) To Come
12) At Peony Pavilion
13) Stir My Belt Ornaments
14) Secrecy Departing