Zheng - Cao Guifen

High Mountain and Flowing Water

The Treasury of Zheng Music, Vol. 3
Henan Zheng Music
Cao Guifen
Hugo HRP 733

Contents:

1. High Mountain and Flowing Water
2. Chen Xingyuan's Reluctant Marriage
3. Lodging in a Garden
4. Celebrating Lantern Festival
5. Going Upstairs
6. Going Downstairs
7. Boudoir Lamentation
8. A Suite of Qupai
9. Yearning
10. Longing for Spring
11. Hunting Wild Geese
12. Spring
13. Dancing Birds
14. Having a Swing
15. Sympathy to Zhou Yu
16. Sighing for Yan Hui
17. Fences of Grapes
18. Chant
19. Su Wu's Nostalgia
20. Magpie and Plum Blossom
21. Daqiban

Playing time: 66'

Recording date: April 1990 (Shanghai)

Cao Guifen (b.c.1930) is the grand-daughter of the legendary Cao Zheng, and so a bearer of the Cao family style. Her recordings have been famous since 1963. Cao Zheng established the Henan school of zheng as a major school in China, and it remains so today. The style is rather more dramatic than others, based largely in the art of narrative verse. The instrument is also traditionally smaller than that for some other schools. This is part of the "Northern" school of zheng, together with Shangdong school.

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