Zhu Jainer: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 (n.d.)
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | 2 CDs | Complete Scans | 395 MB
Classical/20th Century | Label: Shanghai A&V Literature and Art Publishing House | Cat.: 6067 | RS/MU
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | 2 CDs | Complete Scans | 395 MB
Classical/20th Century | Label: Shanghai A&V Literature and Art Publishing House | Cat.: 6067 | RS/MU
Zhu is exceptional among Chinese composers of his generation for his remarkable capacity to adapt himself to the changing political climate. After his studies in Moscow his brazenly Romantic music was criticized in China for its revisionist spirit and he stopped composing for a while. In the late 1960s he was swept along by the revolutionary ardour of the Maoists and began to compose choral cantatas on texts of Mao Zedong. By the end of the Cultural Revolution he had lost faith in his political music and in himself, but in the 1980s he embarked on an astonishing second career as an orchestral composer of in contemporary and even experimental inclination.