From Hungary to Taiwan was released worldwide on January 4, 2019. Order your copy today!

Our new album contains the following music:

Dana Wilson: Hungarian Folk Songs
Lei Liang: Song Recollections*
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 4
Wei-Chieh Lin: Five Taiwanese Folk Songs

*This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund

Why "From Hungary to Taiwan"? 

In this recording we bring you music born of Hungarian and Taiwanese soil — much in the spirit of Béla Bartók, the ethnomusicological father of us all. We present the music in two parallels:

1) Taiwanese folk music in both a more raw "folk" form (Wei-Chieh Lin's Five Taiwanese Folk Songs) and a more stylized treatment (Lei Liang's Song Recollections) 

alongside

2) Hungarian folk music in both a more raw "folk" form (Dana Wilson's Hungarian Folk Songs) and a more stylized treatment (Béla Bartók's Fourth String Quartet).

Our sincere gratitude to the following sponsors whose support made this project possible:

Did you know…?

The FROM HUNGARY TO TAIWAN letters we’re holding on the album cover were made by collage artist Yinling Lin. The letters were cut out of cardboard for a rough-hewn, rustic look. They were then wrapped with various shades of green tissue paper and pasted on background pieces small enough to fit into our suitcases, which were in turn pasted onto larger pieces once we arrived in NYC for the photo shoot.

Here we are, rehearsing our positioning: