Yangqin - Chinese Hammered Dulcimer

James Jones Instruments - Yangqin - Chinese Hammered Dulcimer

Yangqin - Bead Curtain Upside Down 倒垂帘 Traditional chinese music by Xiang Zuhua 项祖华

Yueqin - Song of the Oil Workers 铁人之歌 Feng Shaoxian 冯少先

Performed by Feng Shaoxian 冯少先 + Heilongjiang Song & Dance Theatre National Orchestra 黑龙江省歌舞剧院民族乐团

Sanxian - Lady Liu Qing 柳青娘 - chinese music

Chinese Suzhou Pingtan Ballad-Dream of Red Chamber-night vis

Daiyu is ill and Baoyu visits her at

night.

隆冬寒露结成冰
Cold dews in midwinter freeze into ice
月色迷蒙欲断魂
The moon is hazy in the dim night
一阵阵溯风吹入骨
Northern winds are bone-chilling
乌洞洞的大观园里冷清清
The Prospect Garden in the darkness are cold and desolate
贾宝玉一路花街步

Chinese Suzhou Pingtan Ballad-DU Shi Niang

The Peony Pavilion - video Metropolitan Museum (English Subtitles)

Program Information
Presented November 30, 2012
Tan Dun, director
With the aim of animating Metropolitan Museum galleries in new ways, Met Museum Presents offers one of five performances of the sixteenth-century Kunqu opera masterpiece The Peony Pavilion, in a seventy-minute version developed and directed by celebrated composer Tan Dun with choreography by Huang Doudou, one of China's most prominent dancers, in the Met's Astor Court, the courtyard modeled on a seventeenth-century garden.

The performance is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Chinese Gardens: Palace Pavilions, Scholars' Studios, Rustic Retreats, on view August 18, 2012–January 6, 2013, which explores the rich interactions between pictorial and garden arts in China across more than one thousand years, featuring more than seventy paintings and contemporary photographs as well as ceramics, carved bamboo, lacquerware, metalwork, and textiles drawn from the Museum's collections.

The Peony Pavilion is one of the most important works of classical Chinese opera. A sweeping love story with subplots involving feudalism, the work in its original form consisted of fifty-five acts that take more than twenty hours to perform. This version is directed by Zhang Jun, one of China's most respected Kunqu performers, and remains faithful to the core plot focusing on the love story between the heroine and hero—Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei—and the Peony Pavilion where their love began.

http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/concerts/peony-pavilion

Beijing Opera She Sai Hua 3 京剧佘賽花 with English subtitle

Beijing Opera She Sai Hua 2 京剧佘賽花 video with English subtitle

Beijing Opera She Sai Hua 1 京剧佘賽花 video with English subtitle

She
Sai Hua was the matriarch of the Yang family generals. Mu Guiying is
another famous lady general and was her granddaughter-in-law. Along
with Mulan, these are the well-known lady generals in Chinese
history.

Chinese music :Guo Gan - Butterfly Lovers 梁祝 (ErHu Concerto)

ErHu -- Guo Gan . chef d'ochestre --Sun Ying . Orchetre --- l'orchestre philharmonique Paris Pekin . Lieu : Theatre Jean Vilar . Paris . France . date : 01/06/2012 作曲：陳綱、何占豪 Composed by Chen Gang, He Zhan-hao in 1959 The story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai has been a household love story in China for more than 1000 years. The heroine Zhu Yingtai, disguised as a man, becomes bosom friends with Liang Shanbo, a classmate of hers for 3 years. Before returning home, Yingtai implies to shanbo that she will be his wife. Knowing that Yingtai is woman, the delighted Shanbo hurries to her home, only to find that her family has betrothed her to someone else against her will. Under the pressure of the patriarchal clan rules and feudal ethics, they die for love and return into a pair of butterflies. The moving tragic legend extols pure love and freedom of love. First appearing in the early Tang Dynasty, the story was put on the stage in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and plays based on the story was widely performed during the Ming and Wing dynasties. The story has been handed down to this day in manifold forms

梁祝 笙協奏曲 Butterfly Lovers Sheng Concerto ,Sheng : HUNG, SHAO - HUAN

《鄉敘》 笙：陳麒米 Pei-I Chen 2008 Sheng Recital - video chinese music

笙人‧GISèLE
陳佩怡2008笙獨奏會
Pei-I Chen 2008 Sheng Recital
2008 / 5 / 18 (日)高雄市音樂館演奏廳

=秋夜= 笙獨奏曲 黃郁軒 chinese music, sheng, pipa, traditional instr. video

笙獨奏曲《冬獵》 笙：陳麒米 chinese music - sheng (windpipe) - video

Sheng-笙 (sheng windpipe)

The Chinese sheng (Chinese: 笙; Pinyin sheng) is a mouth-blown free reed instrument consisting essentially of vertical pipes, in the Chinese orchestra. It is thought that Johann Wilde and Pere Amiot traveled to China and brought the first shengs back to Europe in 1740 and 1777 respectively… (more from wiki, 百度百科)

Winter Hunting (CHEN Peiyi)
冬猎 “Dong lie” (陈佩怡)

Musica cinese: Autumn moon on a calm lake - Liu Fang 02 guzheng

Beijing opera: "The Empty City Stratagem" 空城计 - Yu Kuizhi (于魁智) - video

Beijing opera: "The Empty City Stratagem" 空城计

subtitles by M. Croche

First company of the National Beijing Opera Theater

Zhuge Liang: Yu Kuizhi (于魁智)
Sima Yi: Shang Changrong (尚长荣)
Old Guy #1: Niu Piao (钮骠)
Old Guy #2: Zheng Yan (郑岩)
Zhao Yun: Wang Lu (王璐)
Huqin solo: Zhao Jianhua (赵建华)

 

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鹧鸪飞 Chinese bamboo flute