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 Chinese Violin Music - Hu Kun
Description: Artist: Hu Kun / Genre: Classical Newest Review: ... is now Professor of violin at the Yehudi Menuhin School and a member of the Royal Academy of Music. Almost all the pieces on ... more  ... the CD are transcribed from other instruments and unlike some works where you feel something has disappeared in the translation, in Hu Kun’s playing you feel as if the pieces had been originally written for violin and no other instrument. His playing throughout is quite beautiful, balanced and refined; but one should not forget the accompanist, Olga Sitkovetsky, whose piano underscores Kun’s playing a perfectly. Her part is important for all the music on the CD is the work of the two musicians alone and she is no w...more |
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Hu Kun - Chinese Violin Music
Chinese Violin Music |
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Chinese Violin Music - Hu Kun: Romantic, political and beautiful (1126 words)
by no_name - written on 30.11.06 (Very useful, 335 readings)
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My first experience with Chinese music was a rather accidental encounter whereupon a colleague of mine passed me a CD he bought at a concert. Having only listened to a handful of tracks I was frustrated by the fact the music was mostly interpretations of English music such as Greensleeves, a piece that irritates beyond reason. Regardless of the skill of the musicians, it was watered-down music for an English audience. A few years later, having seen Wu Man perform Philip Glass' Orion, I began to listen to a few small selections of Chinese music. Not really knowing where to start it was never easy and yet lo and behold yesterday in the local Oxfam music shop ...
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