Chinese Celebration
An enchanting collection of traditional and contemporary music from mainland China and Taiwan, with both sung and instrumental pieces, showcasing traditional Chinese instruments such as the board zithers guqin and zheng, lutes, such as pipa and ruan, flutes, e.g. dizi and xiao, as well as erhu (fiddle), yangqin (hammered dulcimer), sheng (mouth-blown bamboo organ) and konghou (Chinese harp).
1. Hanshin Chinese Folk & Dance Ensemble: Dragon Dance - Festival Celebration (trad.) - 7:30
2. Silk & Bamboo Ensemble: Full of Joy (trad. arr. Ensemble) - 2:37
3. Pan Jing & Ensemble: Horse Race (Huang Haihuai) - 1:44
4. Mei Han & Red Chamber: Sunny Spring & White Snow (trad., arr. Guilian Liu) - 2:54
5. Gong Linna: Pangxie Ge (Crabs) (trad. arr. Lao Luo [R. Zollitsch]) - 1:24
6. Xiao Ying: Harvest Drumming (Li Zhuji) - 3:50
7. Miao Xiaoyun: Sound from Afar (Chen Wenjie) - 5:33
8. Xu Pingxin: Planting Song (trad. Manchurian folk song, arr. Xu Ying) - 2:19
9. Hanshin Chinese Folk & Dance Ensemble: The Hill Named Youth (trad.) - 2:33
10. Gong Linna: Xiao Biaomei (My Girl) (Gong Linna/Lao Luo [R. Zollitsch]) - 3:19
11. Heart of the Dragon Ensemble: Bamboo Dance (Jiang Li) - 5:06
12. Chen Dacan Chinese Ensemble: Feng Shou (trad.) - 3:51
13. Silk & Bamboo Ensemble: Moving Up (trad. arr. Ensemble) - 2:29
14. Xiao Ying: General’s Orders (trad.) - 4:01
15. Gong Linna: Bai Ge Gan Chang (White Dove) (trad., arr. Lao Luo [R. Zollitsch]) - 1:29
16. Mei Han & Red Chamber: Dance of the Yao People (Tieshan Liu/Yuan Mao, arr. Mei Han SOCAN/Randy Raine-Reusch SOCAN) - 4:55
17. Xu Pingxin: Curtain Upside Down (trad. Cantonese music, arr. Yan Laolie) - 2:20
18. Silk String Quartet: Three and Six (trad., arr. Silk String Quartet) - 4:25
19. Zhou Yu: Welcome Home our Soldier Brother (trad., arr. by Zhang Chang-Cheng/Yuan Ye) - 5:28
Total playing time: 68:42 min.