Label: ATMA Classique
| Cat. No.: ATMA 2 2332 | Release: 2004
Mei Hua - Plum Blossoms
Traditional
Chinese melodies interpreted on flute and guzheng (pipa)
performed by
Lise
Daoust (flute) and Liu Fang (guzheng and pipa)
Music
for anti-stress relaxing and meditation, and suitable for Taiji practice.
- Gu Su
Xing ( Walk In The City of Suzhou) (flute and guzheng)
- Ballad
(flute)
- Mei Hua
(Plum Blossoms) (flute, guzheng)
- Yi Dance
(pipa)
- Yang
Guan (flute, guzheng)
- Purple
Bamboo Melody (flute)
- Perpetual
Spring (flute)
- Greensleeves
To A Ground (flute, pipa)
- Piece
For Guzheng (guzheng)
- Eight-Segment
Brocade (flute)
- Lady
Meng Jiang (flute, guzheng)
- Su Wu
Tends Sheep (flute)
- Chun
Jiang (Spring River) (flute and guzheng)
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Press Reviews
Mei Hua. Lise
Daoust, flute; Liu Fang, guzheng and pipa. Chinese traditional melodies
(with an exception of "Greensleeves"). ATMA 2 2332.
by Véronique
Robert, L'actualité, 2004
The
musical meetings of East-Occident do not astonish any more, but
they are not quite as happy as this one. The achievements of Lise
Daoust, one of the best flutists Quebec has produced, are the opposite
of the facility, because they all are based on research. She lent
her breath to many contemporary composers, explored unusual territories,
from the tango to the ragas of India. She collaborates here with
a virtuoso star of two string instruments of the Chinese tradition,
Liu Fang, established in Canada since 1996. Sometimes in solo, sometimes
together, they deliver the melodies (bravo to the wonderful recording!)
who, no, do not sound all similar when one tries hard to listen
to them. Impressionist atmosphere and antistress (relaxing) effect
guaranteed. Variations on "Greensleeves", this beautiful
English melody of the 17th century - wink in Occident -, are ravissantes.
(Source: http://www.lactualite.com/disques/article.jsp?content=20041013_191040_3096,
title: Vents d’est, par Véronique Robert, L'actualité,
2004)
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