China: Contemporary Classical Music

Personnel: Meng Xiande (vielle, fiddle); Zhan Yongming (flute, ocarina).
Liner Note Author: Francois Picard.
Recording information: Studio 103 de Radio France (09/18/1988); Studio 103, Radio France, Paris, France (09/18/1988).
Translator: Jeffrey Grice.
Music for pipa lute, banhu fiddle, diizi flute, and sheng mouth-organ is performed by a group of young musicians. They are part of what the notes call an evolutionary process, which appears to include elements of an international sensibility, less in material than in more indefinable interpretative attitudes. Included are good notes with illustrations of the instruments. ~ John Storm Roberts