Music of Silence (The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series) Xiaowen Shang

• Federico Mompou (1893 -1987): Música callada I, No. 1:
• 1 Mompou: Música callada I, No. 1: Angelico 01:56
• Antonio Soler (1729 - 1783): Sonata in D Minor, R. 39:
• 2 Soler: Sonata in D Minor, R. 39 03:42
• Antonio de Cabezón (1510 - 1566): Diferencias sobre "La Dama le demanda":
• 3 Cabezón: Diferencias sobre "La Dama le demanda" 02:27
• Federico Mompou: Música callada I, No. 3:
• 4 Mompou: Música callada I, No. 3: Placide 02:02
• Antonio de Cabezón: Diferencias sobre "La Gallarda Milanesa":
• 5 Cabezón: Diferencias sobre "La Gallarda Milanesa" 02:20
• Antonio Soler: Sonata in G Minor, M. 38:
• 6 Soler: Sonata in G Minor, M. 38 04:06
• Federico Mompou: Música callada I, No. 5:
• 7 Mompou: Música callada I, No. 5 03:36
• Música callada II, No. 13:
• 8 Mompou: Música callada II, No. 13: Tranquillo 02:45
• Antonio Soler: Sonata in D-Flat Major, R. 88:
• 9 Soler: Sonata in D-Flat Major, R. 88 04:29
• Federico Mompou: Música callada II, No. 12:
• 10 Mompou: Música callada II, No. 12: Lento 02:55
• Antonio Soler: Sonata in B Minor, R. 10:
• 11 Soler: Sonata in B Minor, R. 10 04:36
• Federico Mompou: Música callada I, No. 2:
• 12 Mompou: Música callada I, No. 2: Lent 01:50
• Música callada II, No. 16:
• 13 Mompou: Música callada II, No. 16: Calme 02:39
• Antonio de Cabezón: Canción religiosa:
• 14 Cabezón: Canción religiosa 02:39
• Federico Mompou: Música callada I, No. 7:
• 15 Mompou: Música callada I, No. 7: Lento 03:55
• Total Runtime 45:57

Info for Music of Silence (The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series)

Pianist Xiaowen Shang has recorded a programme that spans three centuries of Spanish music as part of the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series. Federico Mompou’s late utterance, Música callada (Music of Silence) is a cycle of meditative miniatures, distilling flamenco rhythm and ethereal ancient melody. Mompou’s visionary masterpiece forms the touchstone of the recital, combining Antonio Soler’s eighteenth-century flamboyant sonatas with piano transcriptions of the sixteenth-century sacred composer Antonio de Cabézon.

Xiaowen Shang, piano

Xiaowen Shang
tarted to play piano since she was four years old. She then studied piano at the primary and middle schools of the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing with Aiping Jin and Danwen Wei before coming to study piano as an undergraduate at the Royal Academy of Music.

She has been studying with Aiping Jin and Danwen Wei for the past fourteen years from primary school to high school and studies currently with Joanna MacGregor at undergraduate level at the Royal Academy of Music.

Xiaowen has been awarded scholarships in the primary and middle schools of CCOM in Beijing and has been awarded a full entrance scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in 2018. Xiaowen has performed in Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, London, St. Petersburg and Bucharest among other cities.

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