for Male Choir and Pipa in 5 movements
| Music: | Jing YANG |
| Text: |
Jean-Pierre Voiret |
| Li Bai (Tang Dynasty) |
1. Oriens Extremus
Shiny scales of silvery water
Catch up with swift diamonds
Balance of Times
Peaceful Heavens
2. Middle Kingdom
Heaven and Earth rejoin
Splashing meridian treasures
On smouldering gold
A monk pours beauty
In the vase of night
3. Shanshui
Naked pagodas
Emerging so pure
from dark fumaroles
Open lips of flowers
Sipping the rain,
Shadows...
4. Exotics
Lacework of drops
Leaves caressing their branch
Long kisses of transparent spirits
Earth keeps vigil
Of her fecund Dead
5. Li Bai 望庐山瀑布
(poem from Li Bei, recited in Chinese original language)
日照香炉生紫烟，
Ri Zhao Xiang Lu Sheng Zi Yan
遥看瀑布挂前川。
Yao Kan Pu Bu Gua Qian Chuan
飞流直下三千尺，
Fei Liu Zhi Xia San Qian Chi
疑是银河落九天。
Yi Shi Yin He Luo Jiu Tian