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Label:
   Channel of China - http://www.channelclassics.com/
Serial:
   CCS SA 80106
Title:
   Ambush on all Sides - Zhang Hong Yan
Description:
   "Ambush on all Sides"

Zhang Hong Yan (pipa solo)
Track listing:
   1. Dragon Boat
2. Falling Snow Flakes Dotting the Verdant Trees
3. Moonlit Night by the Flowery Spring Lake
4. High Spring and Pure Snow
5. Great Waves Wash Away the Sand
6. Ambush on all Sides
7. The Rising Moon
8. A Homesick Song from the War Frontier
9. King Chu doffs his armour
Genre:
   World
Content:
   Stereo/Multichannel
Media:
   Hybrid
Recording type:
   DSD
Recording info:
   Producer: C. Jared Sacks and Zhang Hong Yan

Recording engineer/editing: C. Jared Sacks
Assistant recording engineer: Hanying Feng

Microphones: Bruel & Kjaer 4066, Schoeps MK2
Digital converter: DSD Super Audio/Meitner Pyramix Editing/Merging Technologies

Recorded at Beijing Concert Hall, August 2005
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Reviews: 2
Site review by Polly Nomial February 23, 2009
Performance:   Sonics:  
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Review by Oscar May 20, 2007 (4 of 4 found this review helpful)
Performance:   Sonics:    
It is a great initiative of this label to record a collection of discs devoted to Chinese music, which is rather unknown in the "Western" world.

The Pipa is one of the mostr ancient and traditional instruments in China, and resembles a lute (half-pear shaped). It´s sound is very sweet and mellow.

Zhang Hong Yan, the player, has mastered all the intricacies of this complex instrument, and plays with a great dynamic range, as well as an expansive tonal pallette.

The works are all form the traditional "pipa" literature, that have been passed down from generation to generation, and demand playing of the highest calliber. All the "themes" of the disc are about some "poetic" story, so the music is quite descriptive, and a good way to inmerse onself into the ancient chinese culture.

Sound is excellent and very clear, giving this string instrument a very "tactile" quality.

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