The Art of the Chinese Erhu

Artist: Zhou Yu
Label: Arc Music
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 743037155526
EAN: 0743037155526
ASIN: B00004BZ0T

Release Date: 2000-02-22

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Tracks:

Pure White Hada Scarf
Welcome Home Our Soldier Brother
Miss Shepherdess
Lament Of The River House
Moonlight Reflection On Hui Spring
Gymkhana
My Long Way Home
Gyspy Melodies

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Customer Reviews:

A way to keep my daughter's heritage part of our daily lives.......2005-06-27

I am constantly on the lookout for different ways to keep my daughter's Chinese heritage in our daily lives. I am very pleased to have found this cd and my daughter & I like to listen to it while out and about in our car. There are 8 tracks to this cd and if there was any information on where the song was from I wrote it down below. My daughter is interested in listening, but at 2 1/2 wants to move on to a different cd after a few songs. I think as she gets older she will want to listen to more. I like this cd because the Erhu is very simular to a violin.

Our daughter's province is not included in this cd, but maybe your daughter or sons province is.

1st song - Pure White Hada Scarf - this song is based on Tibetan Xian-Zi style of music and decribes the happy character of the Tibetan people.

2. Welcome Home our Soldier Brother - This piece is based on the Wan Wan Operatic style from San-Xi Province.

4. Lament of the River House - In Chengdu City, Sichuan Province this song is about the River House & how the poetess Madam Xue Tao took her life.

5. Moonlight Reflection on Hui Spring - Hui Spring in Wuxi is the 2nd most scenic spring in China. This song is about a blind street musician.

6. Gymkhana - This song inspiration is from the folklore of Inner Mongolia where they celebrate the Na Da Mu Gymkhana festival.

Very Special Indeed.......2001-05-10

This is a well put together specialty collection on the Chinese string instument, the "ERHU," which sounds at times like a violin but with a richer spectrum of emotion and tonal flair. The kick for me in this album is the last piece in which the "ERHU" was played in place of a violin in the "Gypsy Melodies" that gave both the "ERHU" and "Gypsy Melodies" fresh and unexpected twists. Nonetheless, the other seven traditional Chinese musical compositions, featuring and highlighting the "ERHU," truely delivers and represents and versatility built into this great Chinese string instrument. I highly recommend this album to any string instument lovers, may it be guitar, violin, erhu, koto, cello, etc, you won't be disappointed.

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