Li/ Four Corners Ensemble - World MapThroughout history, music has overcome culture and borders to bring people together through a universal language. Shuying Li's WORLD MAP a collection of five mini concertos for quintet takes listeners on a journey around the world, opening their ears to music's evolution as an international unifier. Each piece of WORLD MAP focuses on specific cultural events that are representative of different regions of the world. Over the course of the album, LI

a dynamic performer who breathes life into the music he approaches

Alex Beccara is very much doing his own thing

An ambitious project recorded in 1979

and Easy Living

Vierne brought the organ symphony to it's pinnacle with his six symphonies

It was Genjo who brought back from India the sacred texts that introduced Buddhism into China and Japan

An eclectic mix of mandolin

The album title is taken from "Rampokan Macan"

and more recent touchstones like The Comet Is Coming

and so with the characteristic vein of restless unease that runs through most of his output

A graduate of the Accademia della Santa Cecilia in Rome

their differences come to a head