China - Special Collection

Special Collection of Contemporary Chinese Musicians
Wind Records (Taiwan) TCD-1019 (2 CDs)

Contents:

  1. A-bing (erhu): The Moon Reflected on Two Erchuan Spring (1950)
  2. Wei Zhong-yue (erhu): Happiness in Sadness (1955)
  3. Sun Wen-ming (erhu): A Shiny Qin (1957)
  4. Sun Wen-ming (erhu): Song of Waves (1957)
  5. Yang Bao-zhong (chinghu): Tearful Morning (1959)
  6. Yang Bao-zhong (chinghu): Ba-cha (1959)
  7. Sun Liang (sihu): Eight Tones (1978)
  8. Selaxi (matoqin): Ba-ya-ling (1959)
  9. Feng Zi-cun (di): Joy of Reencounter (1955)
  10. Wei Yong-tang (di): Yang-zhou-xiao-kai-men (1955)
  11. Yuan Zi-wen (di): Xia-diao-zhu-yun-fei (1957)
  12. Liu Guan-yue (di): Birds in the Shade of Trees (1957)
  13. Lu Chun-ling (di): Three Melodies of Plum Blossoms (1982)
  14. Yang Yuan-heng (guan): Da-er-fan (1959)
  15. Yang Yuan-heng (guan): Fang-lu (1955)
  16. Yuan Zi-wen (suona): Da-he-tao (1955)
  17. Wei Yong-tang (suona): Wind and Snow (1955)
  1. Cha Fu-xi (guqin): Missing an Old Friend (1951)
  2. Guang Ping-hu (guqin): Flowing Water (1954)
  3. Guang Ping-hu (guqin): Grievance of Changmen (1954)
  4. Wu Jing-lue (guqin): Misty Rivers of Xiao Xiang (1957)
  5. Zhao Yu-zhai (guzheng): Die-duan-qiao (1956)
  6. Gao Zi-cheng (guzheng): High Mountain and Flowing Water (1960)
  7. Luo Jiu-xiang (guzheng): Waterlilies (1960)
  8. A-bing (pipa): Da-lang-tao-sha (1950)
  9. Wei Zhong-yue (pipa): Qin-lian-yue-fu (1954)
  10. Li Ting-song (pipa): Ba-wang-xie-jia (1955)
  11. Zhu Qin-fu (bangu): A Section of Drum Ballad (1962)

Playing time: 132'08"

Recording dates per ending parentheses above

This is another introductory collection for Chinese art music, offering samples rather similar to the Ocora release. Here an emphasis on items more related to folk or theater repertory is shown on the first CD, and so it makes for a good supplementary survey.

Compiled by Qiao Jian-zong (b.1941). This is a lavishly produced set, with a huge volume of documentation, but only a small amount in English (just enough to learn what is what).

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To Chinese music intro.

T. M. McComb