Beloved Chinese Songs [Gold CD]

Chinese Music Ensemble Of New York | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 8, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Gold CD
• Label: Chesky Records
• ASIN: B000003GHV
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,033,125 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tea Picking and Butterfly Chasing

2. The Shepherd Girl

3. Studious Schoolboy

4. Purple Bamboo

5. Red Bean Song

6. Love Song of Kang Ding

7. It Is Cold, Cold, Cold

8. Flower Drum Song I

9. Fishermen's Song

10. The Wandering Songstress

11. Farewell Song

12. Wading in Snow Looking for Plum Blossoms

13. In That Distant Place

14. Flower Drum Song II

15. Lament of Wang Zhao-Jun

16. The Mountain Is Forever Green

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lively collection of "classical" Chinese vocal music., July 13, 1999

By 

Marion Edwards (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beloved Chinese Songs (Audio CD)

This album makes for very pleasant listening, and quite readily proves false the myth that Chinese vocal music is little more than "nasal screeching." Culled from the vast and varied repetoire of Chinese folk music and cinema, "Beloved Chinese Songs" captures the many moods expressed in these genres -- exuberant, wistful, humorous, poignant. The Chinese Music Ensemble of New York is truly an "army of generals," performing these pieces with both the sensitivity and exuberance requisite of such music, as well as with the technical mastery achieved by only the best of musicians.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music lover, even foreign., April 9, 2003

By 

Evelyn O. Simon "webstore owner" (South Florida. U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beloved Chinese Songs (Audio CD)

Beloved Chinese songs are songs sung in Chinese, I wouldn't have it any other way. To the other reviewers, the songs may be sung in Chinese and you may not understand them; but inside of the CD the meaning of the songs are explained in English which makes the songs more enjoyable. Listening to these beautiful songs, and melodies; relaxes me. "Purple bamboo" is my favorite.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I own it. I love it., January 17, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Beloved Chinese Songs (Audio CD)

I play this album all of the time. The music is delightful and, when I visited the PRC, I actually heard people on the street singing some of these songs.