Yuan Deng
The Mountain and the River (CD)

FY8225

Yuan Deng - gu zheng
The CD program includes classical pieces of Chinese tradition, presented in only gu zheng version, with a repertoire ranging from the typical impressionistic pieces of classical Chinese music, inspired by natural phenomena and/or scenes of everyday life, to rousing suite drawn from the repertoire of folk music of ethnic minorities in the country. As Dance of the Yao People illustrating the spirit of their rural communities around the world while celebrating with song and dance a universal hymn to life.
The gu zheng (ancient zheng), according to the classification of musical instruments widely in use today, is a harp, an instrument that is made up exclusively of a sounding flat and strings. The harps table are very common and widespread in the musical cultures in East Asia, an area that includes China, Korea and Japan and they are tools very similar to each other. Among the various recall over the Chinese gu zheng, also known simply as zheng, the Korean gayageum and the Japanese koto, all with common characteristics.
The standard model consists of movable bridges and strings that are plucked with the fingers of his right hand. The size zheng ranging from 120 to 170 cm in length, the jumpers are mobile and are moved to vary the tuning of the instrument. The strings that were originally silk, today are more commonly made of steel and nylon. From the middle of the twentieth century began to make tools with 18, 21 and 25 strings, but the 21-string version remains the most commonly used. The open strings are tuned in pentatonic scale semitonal, so the 21-string instrument has four full octaves.
In the conventional technique, only the right hand plucking the strings of the performer, while the left hand was used to apply pressure and release the string by changing the pitch and producing vibrato and other sounds similar, while in contemporary technique also hand left can pluck the strings. The gu zheng has a history of over 2500 years. Ancient Chinese legends and literary texts frequently attributed to famous people or legendary figures the invention of this instrument. Zheng concerts are documented in the Shiji (Register of history) the oldest official Chinese text dating from the third century BC.
YUAN DENG was born in China where he began studying his instrument at the age of six years, achieving the highest diploma for amateur musicians. After graduation she graduated in engineering in Italy where she moved and now resides. In recent years he has played a concert activity in Italy and in China.

Track listing:

1.Dance of the Yao People 6.01
2.High Mountains and Flowing Water 5.41
3.Heroic Little Sister on the Praire 5.37
4.Fisherman's Song at Dusk 4.49
5.Spring Dawn in the Snowy Mountains 4.33
6.The Blooming Shandandan Flowers Shine Bright Red 5.30
7.Longing for Normal 5.06
8.The Song of Mulberry Field of Qin 5.20
9.Four Section Silk Brocade 6.04

Published: 2015

Genre: Asia & Oceanic
Label: Felmay