Lynn René Bayley has a RAVE review for Les Temps Modernes’ December Chrysanthemum: Chamber Music of Xiaogang Ye recording on the Art Music Lounge:
“this is clearly inventive, interesting and well-written music… it has a wonderful sweep and forward momentum about it that is enticing, and his uncanny ability to move his musical materials around like so many fast-moving chess pieces on a board is quite dazzling. Ye also has a great sense of balance and proportion; he does not overwrite, often a bane of many modern composers whether tonal or atonal, and his music does not overstay its welcome for one second longer than it needs to be heard. In addition, he has a great ear for color.… For me this is truly one of the most interesting and revelatory CDs of the year. I enjoyed every single moment of it!”
—Lynn René Bayle, Art Music Lounge