CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Classics (Modern Classics)      

Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Imperial Bells Ensemble, Yip Children's Choir

This disc received the 1997 Grammy award for "Best Producer of the Year, Classical" (Steven Epstein).

Selections recorded April 8-9, 1997 at Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong Kong, April 1-2, 1997 at Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, China and May 6-8, 1997 at Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts.

...'Symphony 1997' decks itself out in some grand symbols of Chinese civilization: poetry of Li Po, the playing of one of the greatest musicians ever to have touched a cello, ideas from the 'Yi-Ching,' the sound of Hong Kong children, and the awe-inspiring ring of the 2400-year-old Bianzhong bells. It all makes a grand and happy sound, but there seems a purposeful evasion to it all - a convenient, backward-focussed ambiguity... 'Symphony 1997' is pleasant and vivid enough if also so incoherent (so 'unsymphonic') as to make it sound like a soundtrack to a movie or some kind of background music...

American Record Guide (11/01/1997)