tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post1736939533267690520..comments2024-01-05T14:01:50.208+01:00Comments on Anthems for the Nation of Luobaniya • 罗巴尼亚国歌: Liu Tianhua - Erhu Solos - 1929-1932bolingo69http://www.blogger.com/profile/17775705045849021022noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-42285308388036965692010-07-12T07:37:31.155+02:002010-07-12T07:37:31.155+02:00really mind-blowing music! some of the best Chines...really mind-blowing music! some of the best Chinese music I've heard so far... thank you so much for all your hard work sharing this!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-26462545251630015472010-06-15T14:58:24.258+02:002010-06-15T14:58:24.258+02:00Hi Pirate nice to see you charting the Luobaniyan ...Hi Pirate nice to see you charting the Luobaniyan waters! Guess there will be loot enough to go around for everyone and as a special "Iriteration" there will eventually be rather a lot of the previously by you sought for Vilayat Khan Early India vinyl...bolingo69https://www.blogger.com/profile/17775705045849021022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-84377433703975511672010-06-12T04:07:15.942+02:002010-06-12T04:07:15.942+02:00looks lovely; I'll give it to my 2 erhu-playin...looks lovely; I'll give it to my 2 erhu-playing friends. thanks!The Irate Piratehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11424429160753219350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-26508546243314055322010-06-12T01:05:39.452+02:002010-06-12T01:05:39.452+02:00He he, This is so funny!
Here I go on harping to ...He he, This is so funny! <br />Here I go on harping to all and sundry how important it is to have the photos of labels as you almost always find some pertinent information there and then I miss that the those very lablles have all the information on the artists that I could ever ask for. Thank you very much for pointing that out huqinblogger! also I do agree with you that the quality of many of the Art Tune Companys recordings were of pretty dismal quality and I am sure the source for most of them were PRC recordings. That said, way back then when I got them I was very happy to have them as any records from China were more than hard to find. There was the Folkways 10' LP and the Lyrichord and then if you were lucky like I was you could get a few LP's out of China itself but oh so few and oh how many that only had propagandistic material on them. Anyhow great to have your assistance here and I will check out the recordings that you mention on your blog! I found some very nioce other records there as well. Thanks a lot!bolingo69https://www.blogger.com/profile/17775705045849021022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-82080422456938068862010-06-11T02:51:25.134+02:002010-06-11T02:51:25.134+02:00Gan Bolin is 甘柏林.
Zhang Rui is 张锐.
The LP sleeve...Gan Bolin is 甘柏林.<br /><br />Zhang Rui is 张锐.<br /><br />The LP sleeve doesn't have the names of the erhu players, but the labels on the record do, it's all there. I have several Art-Tune LPs and cassettes and I think they are really awful in sound quality and often do not have the names of the performers. They sound like as if they were copied from PRC records using a cheap mic held next to the speaker of a low grade record player.<br /><br />Guangming Xing can be heard on Youtube; search with "光明行".<br /><br />Zhang Rui's recording of the all the ten solos:<br />http://huqinblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/zhang-rui-liu-tianhua-erhu-solos-china.html<br /><br />The blog has other recordings of the Liu Tianhua solos; use the search box or the labels on the right.huqinblogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02467715288727047650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-21128824606876403172010-06-10T02:56:30.244+02:002010-06-10T02:56:30.244+02:00(I have added the comment by huqin blogger and add...(I have added the comment by huqin blogger and added the by you supplied names of the performing artists! I had to guess the chinese characters so maybe you can tell me if those are the right artists!<br /><br />Also if you maybe can send me the chinese characters for Zhang Rui and Gan Bolin, I think I got the others right but these two I could not guess...) The only Zhang Rui was a young girl born well after this record was published, and for you they may be household names...bolingo69https://www.blogger.com/profile/17775705045849021022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-50774502135772161112010-06-09T22:01:54.567+02:002010-06-09T22:01:54.567+02:00Fantastic to get the expertise of huqin blogger, j...Fantastic to get the expertise of huqin blogger, jyst what I was hoping for! I am no connaisseur of bowed instruments except when they accompany different chinese local operas! Thanks for educating us all the photo is on many chinese biography sites and I also found another photo of a more plump faced person. Would you perhaps have a good likeness of the composer of these tunes. Also about the dating I think that you are right and the dating I had found was to the original first recordings by Liu Tianhua. As you see from the LP-cover there is no information about either performer nor any dating. Very good of you to take the time to correct this dating. However 1960's to early 1970's is possible, but 1980's is impossible as I got this record 1973 from a friend who studied in Taiwan at the time and had passed through Hong Kong so the recordings must be before that at least ;-) <br />Lastly, do you have a recording of 光明行? And most important do you have any of the original recordings of Liu Tianhua? I will correct the post according to your comments as soon as I find another photo of Liu Tianhua. Since you know hat he looks like maybe yo can help out as many chinese themselves seem to be at a loss!<br /><br />Thanks for stopping by!bolingo69https://www.blogger.com/profile/17775705045849021022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-77937274712379496222010-06-08T23:46:19.747+02:002010-06-08T23:46:19.747+02:00I don't know who's the person in the photo...I don't know who's the person in the photo bit it's not Liu Tianhua!<br /><br />I think the recording dates are much later than the 1930s, more like the 60s to 80s.<br /><br />The erhu players are:<br /><br />A1 Birdsong in the empty mountains (1931)- Zhang Shao<br />A2 Plucked music - composed and played by Sun Wenming<br />A3 Amorous shadows in candlelight - Zhang Rui<br />A4 Elegy - Zhang Rui<br />A5 Moonlight - Zhang Rui<br />A6 Peaceful evening - Zhang Rui<br /><br />B1 Lamenting illness - Jiang Fengzhi<br />B2 Music in the bitterness - Jiang Fengzhi<br />B3 Residence leisure lament - Jiang Fengzhi<br />B4 Single string exercise - Gan Bolin<br /><br />Liu Tian hua composed ten erhu solos, the LP has nine of them but is missing "guāng míng xíng 光明行" (marching towards the brightness).huqinblogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02467715288727047650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-31315060567742966192010-06-06T13:54:36.969+02:002010-06-06T13:54:36.969+02:00Another gem I know I would have never come across ...Another gem I know I would have never come across if it wasn't for you! Thank you, dear bo!arvindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17728742073139075529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-79943203575970941002010-06-06T13:33:29.313+02:002010-06-06T13:33:29.313+02:00Nice album, thank you very much.Nice album, thank you very much.Janashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037697023331808307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-69399212547791585262010-06-06T06:04:40.365+02:002010-06-06T06:04:40.365+02:00oh & thank you of courseoh & thank you of courseøשlqædahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07659865993865504888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1698420340788655210.post-85647131843706403622010-06-06T06:04:00.536+02:002010-06-06T06:04:00.536+02:00wow. this is superbwow. this is superbøשlqædahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07659865993865504888noreply@blogger.com