Old Bei (2019-20)

Duration: 11’00”

Instrumentation:  (picc.,2,1,c.a.,2,b.cl.,2) - (4,3,3,0) - timp., 3 perc. (bass dr., 2 cowbells, glock., small Chinese gong “xiaoluo”, crash-cymb., xylo., whip, bongos, crot., mark tree, spring coil, snare dr., sus-cymb., tam-tam, 2 t-blks, tri., vibraslap), hp. - strings

First Performance: Hong Kong Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden (conductor); Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hong Kong; 3rd and 4th September 2021.

Notes: Commissioned by the Hong Kong Philharmonic for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.