{"product_id":"tan-dun-symphony-1997-heaven-earth-mankind","title":"Tan Dun: Symphony 1997 \"Heaven Earth Mankind\"","description":"This disc received the 1997 Grammy award for \"Best Producer of the Year, Classical\" (Steven Epstein).\u003cbr\u003eSelections 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.\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS:\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Record Guide (11-12\/97, pp.209-10) - \"...`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...\"","brand":"Sony Masterworks","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":52018033328408,"sku":"074646336823","price":11.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/4318312-3139896.jpg?v=1777621020","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/tan-dun-symphony-1997-heaven-earth-mankind","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}