The composer states that her Cello Concerto is antithetical to her other concertos.

“While in the concertos for violin and piano, in the Double Concerto, and in my new sheng concerto I was seeking to merge the solo instrument and the orchestra into a single virtuoso super-instrument, here it’s all about the competitive tension between the soloist and the orchestra. The ‘aura’ of the cello was the initial nucleus and forms the basis of the music, so the whole structure of the piece is thus ‘c...