China Dreams is a four-movement work written in 1995 for the Seattle Symphony. The work reflects Sheng's nostalgia for his homeland, expressed through use of Chinese folk melodies from different provinces. A recording available on Bis CD 1122 by the...

Flute Moon, premiered by the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1999, is for solo flute/piccolo with a chamber orchestra comprised of harp, piano, percussion and strings. The music is based on Chinese mythology and a poem written in c.1200 by Jiang Kui....

This 1992 composition is the composer's personal portrait of New York City. It was premiered by the New York Philharmonic, with Leonard Slatkin conducting, on January 4, 1996. The title is drawn from poet Pablo Neruda's 1974 Nobel Prize address. The...