22 Dec 2017

TRAD Chinese: Xi Yang Xiao Gu & White Snow in Spring

From Music Alive, 7:00 pm on 22 December 2017
Wu Man

Wu Man Photo: Stephen Kahn

Popular since the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Flute and Drum music at Sunset is one of the representative works of ancient Chinese lute music. The author is not known.

White Snow in Spring first appeared in 1895 (during the Qing dynasty) as a hand-written score in pipa master Li Fangyuan's New Collection of Thirteen Pipa Scores.

 

Recorded 28 September 2017, St Mary of the Angels, Wellington by RNZ Concert.

Producer: David McCaw

Engineer: Graham Kennedy