Personnel: Min Xiao-Fen (pipa); Jie-Bing Chen (erhu); Bei Chen (cello); Yang-qin Zhao, Yang-Qin Zhao (yang-chin).Liner Note Author: Kavichandran Alexander.Recording information: Christ the King Chapel, St. Anthony Seminary, Santa Bar....
Liner Note Author: Patricia Bryers.Recording information: People's Republic Of China.The Hugo Masters comes in a silk-covered box containing notes and music running the gamut of Chinese classical music. This collection was put togethe...
Chinese pipa player Liu Fang had been living in Canada for less than a year when she recorded this beautiful solo set for the Montreal-based Oliver Sudden Productions. The pipa is a traditional Chinese string instrument, four-stringed, pear...
Chinese Traditional Erhu Music, Vol. 2, recorded in March 1997, is Lei Qiang's second album since he resettled in Montreal, Canada and his second opus for the label Oliver Sudden. Just like the first volume, released two years earlier, Qian...
Chinese Traditional Yang-qin Music is Anna Guo's first album produced and released outside of China. A master of the yang-qin, a Chinese hammered dulcimer with 170 strings, Guo performs mostly solo here, accompanied in two pieces by Ting Ho...
Photographer: Harriet Breitborde.This CD presents a series of traditional Chinese folk songs arranged for Chinese bamboo flutes, accompanied by diverse instruments, both modern and traditional, such as guitar, percussion, and synthesizer...
With spirit dedicated to North, the element of water, and the fundamental tone of yu, this album promises music to calm the temperament. Excellent meditational music, devoutly pretty, useful also as a background for T'ai Chi practice. The b...
Recording information: Shanghai.An album designed specifically for the aid of spiritual balance via feng shui principles. The concept is that the five elements of nature (wood, fire, water, earth, metal) can be coupled with the five tone...
This nice collection of traditional Chinese music is performed by a small silk and bamboo ensemble -- strings and flutes. The music focuses on the folk music of Southern China for the most part (and the home of silk and bamboo sounds as wel...
Recording information: Shanghai.This powerful album of traditional folk music from northwestern China is used in Feng Shui to bring good fortune and protection from evil spirits. These pieces feature time-honored instruments and are perf...
The Taoist temples of Shanghai have a long history of being closed, destroyed, and rebuilt. After closing during the Cultural Revolution, the City God Temple reopened in the 1970s (and in its current form in 1994) and promptly produced one ...
Liner Note Author: Martin Siberok.Recording information: Oliver Sudden Productions, Montreal, Canada (01/2004).Photographer: Jim Dawson.Oliver Sudden Productions' Chinese Traditional Music is the Montreal-based label's strongest as...
The Silk String Quartet: Zhou Jinyan (dulcimer); Cheng Yu (lute); Sun Zhuo (zither); Hu Bin (fiddle).Chinese music remains a relatively unexplored territory, even for fairly seasoned world-music adventurers. This lovely album presents bo...