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Bird of Paradise: Winding Notes:ensemble

Bird of Paradise: Winding Notes
Type: CD [1 Disc]
Product #: MA-54-0019
ISBN: CN-E27-03-423-00/A.J6 ISBN: CNE270342300/A.J6
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Producer: AnHui WenHua YinXiang ChuBanShe
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Our Price: $7.80

DESCRIPTION/Track Listings:

The Days We've Been Through
Composed by Hu Wei-li Erhu by Wong Hae Piccolo by Tim Wilson
This elegant and touching song is very popular. In this version which is performed by erhu, the song is more lingering.

Yesterday, Today
Composed and Erhu by Wong Hae Piccolo and flute by Tim Wilson
On the Yellow Platear of China, the simple people are singing their songs and telling us their stories of yesterday and today.

The Ballade of Lan Hua Hua
Music by Kwan Ming Erhu solo and compiled by Wang Guotong
Accompanied by Beijing Ensemble of National Symphony Orchestra
This is an erhu ballade compose along the limes of the story of Lan Hua Hua, which is a folk song of North Shaanxi Province. By means of lyrical, nuanced, fluent and refreshing music language, the music shapes the image of a pristine, kind-hearted but courageous and pugnacious girl of North Shaaxi province. This love tragedy of Lan Hua Hua depicts her unfortunate life, and describes her resolute character in her struggle against feudel forces and fight for freedom of marriage. This piece of music consists of three parts with an introduction an a coda. The introduction employed the North Shaanxi tune of Xin Tian You which depicts a fine and expansive picture, presenting a pleasant feeling as if bringing listeners to the scene of the Lan Hua Hua story highland of North Shaaxni province. The first part, Lan Hua Hua Hao, of the music portrays Lan Hua Hua’s pretty image in two profiles. Through the pristine tune and its variations of Lan Hua Hua , the first subject in moderato exhibits the kind-hearted, pristine and beautiful aspects of Lan Hua Hua’s character. By employing the tune of North Shaanxi folk song the girl carrying buckets of water. The second subject in allegretto develops and varies to portray in another profile of the innocent, vivaciousand upright aspects of Lan Hua Hua’s pretty image. Through the contrast between the two subjects and the variations in tonality, the poetical overtone of the expression of the daughter in thirteen provinces Lan Hua Hua is regarded the best is conveyed, thereby echoing people’s tender care and praise of Lan Hua Hua. As the melody lingers on, the music in the form of rubato suddenly inserts a cadenza on erhu with the sentiment becoming tense and somber. After the music has lingered in the low register of erhu, it moves to the high register, bringing the tense sentiment to a climax. Following that, through a greater extent of ups and downs on the scale and the shifts in the bowing and the fingering techniques, Lan Hua Hua’s traumatic mood of grief arising from the forced marriage by the Zhou family is expressed. The second part, carry to Zhou family by Sealan Chair, is a substantial passage in adagio. Making use of the thematic music of the Lan Hua Hua’ folk song as the core theme, this passage develops on four variations. The music is seemingly in sobbing sounds to spell out the grievances with the sounds seemingly drawing near from afar. The grief is gradually aggravated to the level of resentment, as shown by the gradual development of the agitated lament sound into the imposing accusation with the increasing dynamics in music. Thus Lan Hua Hua’s complex feelings under the stress of grief and resentment in her adversity, and her longing for her beloved relative as graphically depicted. The third part, Escape, is the climax of this piece of music. This passage of undulating melody is in forceful rhythm. Backed up by the accompaniment of the orchestra, the erhu playing in tense sentiment surges ahead continuously in manifestation of Lan Hua Hua’s nervous mood at the time of escaping from the house of landowner Zhou and in portrayal of the vivid scene of her desperate running to her lover’s house. Her resolute spirit of her courageous pursuit for freedom is also conveyed. However, in the feudal society Lan Hua Hua’s resistance and struggle in striving for freedom of marriage is futile and ends in tragedy. At the end, it is a poignant passage in triplet which plays up the traumatic sentiment and anger. Amidst the suppressed atmosphere, listeners seem to hear Lan Hua Hua’s desperate cry of anguish which is striving and heartbreaking. Towards the close in the coda, in the slow moving accompaniment of the orchestra, the playing of erhu solo recapitulates the exquisite and striving theme of the ballade of Lan Hua Hua as if the simple, kind-hearted, lively and pretty image of Lan Hua Hua was seen once more, leaving behind endless interest and reminiscence..

Fantasia Overture
Theme from TV series Bao Qing Tian Music by Huang An
Arranged and orchestrated by zhang Fuuquan
Performed by Beijing Ensemble of National Symphony Orchestra
This is rearranged from a theme song of the popular TV drama series Bao Qing Tian. It has the flavour of folk dance music.

The Thunder and Lighting Polka
Music by J. Strauss
Arranged and Orchestrated by Yang Chunlin
Performed by Beijing Ensimble of National Symphony Orchestra
The famous polka was composed by Johann Strauss in early 1868. The music has merry mood and depicts vivid images.

The Charm of Mountains
Music: Xu Xiaolin
A fancy came into the composer’s mind after he read the mountain ghost written by ancient writer Qu Yuan. The composer draws on the tunelessness, arbitrary quality of the rhythm and the imitation of the soud of perfusion instruments from the modern musical methods, so as to make the music possess strong artistic appeal, which enrich the skills in playing Guzheng. The music is highly appreciated by musicians both at home and abroad.

Go Passing West
(North-west folk song)
In the past, there was a local saying the Yellow River curves along Baode Division, nine years out of ten suffer crop failures-which told that the Yellow River kept on bringing disasters to the local inhabitants. In disaster years, poor peasants living in Shanxi and Shanxi were forced to leave their home for the bend of inner Mongolia to make a living. Since they had to cross the strategic pass of the Great Wall, they were said to go passing west. The melody describes the sad scene of dear ones reluctant to part at the occasion.

Flowing Water from High Mountain
(Guzheng)
Ancient music
Performed by Teng Chunjiang
There was an old Chinese legend in the times from the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC) to the warring states (475-221BC). It is said there is an excellent guqin player named Yu Boya but no one can understand his music. One day, when he played, a passer-by named Zhong Ziqi appreciates his music and they became friends since then. The song praises the friendship of bosom friends. Teng’s performance is mellow, explicit and natural.

Winter Jackdaws Sporting in the Water
(Pipa) Ancient music
Performed by Lin Jiaqing
This was a renowned Chaozhou zheng song, which inherited from the ancient music of the Central Plains, China. Then it was converted to a pipa song and widely spread, even to Southeast Asia. The song shows the spirit of the winter jackdaws who are not afraid of the cold weather and sporting in the water of the lake. It is also named winter Ducks sporting on the water. Lin Jiaqing, son of the famous pipa virtuoso, Lin Shicheng, is an instrumentalist of China Opera and Dance House. He graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music and has held his own concerts in Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan in China. Lin has toured abroad for performances and was highly praised by the audience.

Selling Vegetables (Dizi)
Folk Song
Performed by Dai Ya
This is a folk song of Shanxi Province, China. It expresses the sentiment of happiness; humour and optimism as a vegetable seller walks from afar with his load carried on shoulder pole. The song is rich in local flavour and traditional style. It is performed by bangdi, a kind of dizi(flute) in ancient China. Dizi soloist, Dai Ya taught in the Central Conservatory of music, China.

Raindrops on the Windows (Guzheng)
Ancient Music
Score kept by Luo Liuxiang
Arranged by He Baoquan
Performed by Teng Chunjiang
This piece of music was composed according to Hun Xi Sha written by Zhao Puzhi, a poet in the song Dynasty(960-1279). It is a well-known zheng song of kejia, which is a clan living near the coast of Guangdong Province, China. The melody of the song is simple and implicit. It depicts the feelings of missing the hometown’s mountains and rivers.

Light the Joss Sticks (Guanzi)
Chinese Taoist music
Performed by Fan Wenzhang
The music shows that the joss sticks are lit; guanz(Chinese pipe) is played; and the temple is full of devoted pilgrims. Guanzi soloist, Fan Wenzhang, is an expert of guanzi and suona. He has been honoured the third rank prize in the suona category of the Beijing Folk Music Competition; and the outstanding guanzi performer of different contests in Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan and Guangzhou, China.

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Bird of Paradise: Winding Notes

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Bird of Paradise: Winding Notes

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