Title: Hard to Say Goodbye
- Duets with Qin & Xiao
Artists: LI Feng-yun & Wang Jian-xin
Catalog Number: HRP 7229-2
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Title: LI Xiang-ting
Artist: LI Xiang-ting
Catalog Number: HRP 7199-2
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Title: The Bell of Duke
JI
Artist: XIE Xiao-ping
Catalog Number: HRP 7130-2
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XIE is a qin player who plays and listens with a tranquil
heart. His style belongs to the Qin of the literati, which
is elegant, subtle and quiet. This manifestation of serenity
comes not only from the study of music, but also from the
cultivation of the spirit. His playing inclines more toward
a feminine beauty with simple and harmonious elegance
CHENG Gong-liang began his Qin studies under LIU Jing-shao
of Mei An Qin School and then under ZHANG Zi-quan of the
Guangling School. His style combines the artistry of these
different schools.
Title: Guangling Qin Music
(Vol.3)
Artist: DAI Xiao-lin
Catalog Number: HRP 7141-2
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DAI Xiao-lian began her Qin studies with her uncle ZHANG
Zi-quan at the age of nine. She is a graduate of the Shanghai
Conservatory of Music where she majored in Qin.
Title: Guangling Qin Music
(Vol.4)
Artist: LI Feng-yun
Catalog Number: HRP 7142-2
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In 1989, LI Feng-yun became the final student in the long
and distinguished lineage of ZHANG Zi-qian (1899-1991), who
was the foremost Master of the Guangling School style of
qin performance. Since 1994, Ms. LI has been studying under
the guidance of XU Jian of the Chinese Music Research Institute
of Qin, focusing her research on the theory and translation
of ancient Qin notation. As a featured artist LI Feng-yun
can also be heard on the 2002 recording Hard
to Say Goodbye (Vol.4) HRP 7229-2.
As guest soloist: The Art of Qin Music (Vol.2)
HRP 7137-2, 1996, The
Fading Village KG 1017-A, 1999
and The
Heavenly Sound of Xiao KG 1010-A,
1996.
Title: Guangling Qin Music
(Vol.5)
Artist: LIU Shao-chun (1901-1971)
Catalog Number: HRP 7143-2
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Title: Guangling Qin Music
(Vol.6)
Artist: MEI Ri-qiang (b.1929)
Catalog Number: HRP 7144-2
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MEI Ri-qiang is also called Nan Yi has been playing the Qin
for over sixy years. In 1956 he studied with LIU Shao-chun
and thoroughly learned the Guangling style. His playing has
a spontaneous natural flow and feeling of quietude. Even
though his life has been filled with hardships and difficulties,
MEI's music is honest and correct, simple and unsophisticated,
simple and smooth, distinct and beautiful, grand and magnificent.
The Qin's character depends on the players pure heart.
Title: Guangling Qin Music
(Vol.7)
Artist: LIN You-ren (b. 1938)
Catalog Number: HRP 7145-2
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In addition to performing, LIN is also a scholar of Qin Literature.
He has dubbed background music in Chinese and Western literature
works such as Appreciation for Tang Poetry Quatrains (on
HUGO's HRP 7110-2 and HRP 7111-2), The Little Mermaid, Poems
by Pushkin and Stories from the Bible.
Title: Guangling
Qin Music (Excerpts)
Artists: ZHANG Zi-quan, CHENG Gong-liang and
DAI Xiao-lin
Catalog Number: HRP 718-2
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YU Bo-sun has been playing the Qin for over sixty years
and is the founder and of the Dong-po Qin and Poetry
Association, named for the great Song Dynasty poet,
SU Dong-po. The association is dedicated to promoting
research on the relationship between Qin music and
the poetry of SU and to popularize the Shu School Qin
music.
Title: Shu (Sichuan)
Qin Music (Vol. 3)
Artist: ZENG Chen-wei
Catalog Number: HRP 7133-2
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ZENG Chen-wei learned the Qin from his maternal grandfather,
YU Shao-ze (see HRP 7198-2). Their lineage can be traced
all the way back to the Qin Dynasty Taoist priest ZHANG
Kong-shan. When ZENG learned the Qin from his grandfather,
he became the sixth generation of the Taoist ZHANG
lineage.
Title: Shu (Sichuan)
Qin Music (Vol.4)
Artist: YU Shao-ze (1903-1987)
Catalog Number: HRP 7198-2
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WUMEN QIN
Wumen is another name for Suzhou which is
a famous cultural city known for its music, painting, poetry
and calligraphy. The province of Wu (Suzhou) is renowned
for its aesthetic beauty and pictorial landscape. The Wu
Qin music is distinguished by its gracefulness and detachment.
1.
Eighteen Tragic Parts Of Barbarian Pipes listen
The late WU Zhao-ji was born in 1908 in Hunan Province
and moved to Suzhou in 1912. He learned the Qin from
his father WU Lan-shun. WU was a very suave and tender
gentleman, conversant in both western and Chinese
music. He was also a Professor of Mathematics. In
addition to his cultivation in eastern and western
music and science, Mr. WU was a life-long practitioner
of Qi-Gong (a system of deep-breathing excercises).
These special attributes and gifts gave his qin style
a very deep and penetrating spirit. These two recordings
are highly recommended.
YAO MEN QIN
"Yaomen Qin Music" consists
of new recordings by the sons of the late Qin master
YAO Bing-yan and valuable historical recordings of
the master, which was part of his transcriptions and
research of ancient qin music.
