selected recordings

Cracks Between The Reflections

Charles KWONG
Pastoral - after we perish (2020)
for Orchestra

2 2 2 2 - 2 2 0 0 - tmp - str

Commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta with sponsorship from CASH Music Fund

11 July 2020 WORLD PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: YIP Wing-sie
Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall

Charles KWONG: Pastoral - after we perish (2020)

Charles KWONG
a fictional overture (2017/2021)
for Orchestra

2 2(1.Eh) 2(1.bcl) 2(1.cbn) – 2 2 2 0 – 2perc – hp – str
perc: templeblks(5), flat bottle(2), whip, bd, flexatone

Commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta 

28 March 2020 WORLD PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: Christoph POPPEN
Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall

Charles KWONG: a fictional overture (2017/2021)

Lullabies (2022)
for orchestra

commissioned by the LCSD, Hong Kong SAR Government for the 60th Anniversary of the Hong Kong City Hall

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Ed Gardner, conductor

recorded at Battersea Arts Centre in July 2022

Lullabies (2022) for orchestra

Migrating Tracks (2021)
for 7 musicians

commissioned by the Ensemble recherche, with support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

World premiere by Ensemble recherche on 21 Jan 2022
at Heimathafen Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
as part of Ultraschall 2022

Broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Migrating Tracks (2021) for 7 musicians - II. (main section)

concert piece for violin solo and ensemble
Jagdish Mistry, Ensemble Modern, Sian Edwards

rondo

Charles KWONG
Infinity in the palm (2023)
for Orchestra

2(1.2/pic) 2 2(1.2/bcl) 2(1.cbn) - 4 2 2 0 - tmp+1 - str
perc: crot(B), whip, woodblks(5), templeblks(5), hi-hat, cowbells(2), bongo(2), sd, conga, floor tom, bd

Commissioned by Hong Kong Sinfonietta for the 2nd Hong Kong International Conducting Competition

26 March 2023 WORLD PREMIÈRE
Hong Kong Sinfonietta | Conductor: Yao-yu WU (Winner of Best Interpretation of the New Commissioned Work Prize)
Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall

Charles KWONG: Infinity in the palm (2023)

Improvisations on Serge Modular Synthesizer and csound processing.

Serge Noise Studies 03

Fiori di fiori

Sonata / dissipated in silence (ver. 2016)
for sheng, guzheng, violin, double bass and percussion

Performer: Hong Kong New Music Ensemble

Sonata / dissipated in silence (ver. 2016) for sheng, guzheng, violin, double bass and percussion

KillingBachDisco

Killing Bach

sull'essere angeli

for 8 strings

Arditti Quartet & Jack Quartet 
Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 
April 28th 2012

Mauro Lanza - "Der Kampf zwischen Karneval und Fasten" (2012)

Interprété par l'ensemble Intercontemporain et élèves du CNSM le 30/01/2019

direction : Simon Proust

violon : Hae-Sun Kang
alto : Odile Auboin
violoncelle :Eric-Maria Couturier
Contrebasse : Nicolas Crosse
Accordéon : Ambre Vuillermoz
saxophone soprano : Rui Ozawa
clarinette : Martin Adamek
Trompette :Lucas Lipari-Mayer
Percussions : Samuel Favre

Hoquetus Mechanicus (2018-2019) pour ensemble de 9 musiciens et piano mécanique

Please, use headphones or good loudspeakers.

MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra
commissioned by Westdeutschen Rundfunk and Wien Modern

Live Recording WDR Orchestra, 12 May 2019, Witten

MOULT (2018–19), for orchestra

Live recording Zurich 
ensemble Inverspace

music for gas stations (corals) ensemble Inverspace

Charles Kwong
鄺展維 
composer
www.charleskwong.com

Sonata / dissipated in silence (ver. 2016) for sheng, guzheng, violin, double bass and percussion

Charles Kwong

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