CHINA

Master Tsar - the Art of the qin

CD AIMP CVIII-CVIX / VDE 1432/33, 2014

Mrs Tsar teh-yun (1905-2007) was not only a poet and calligrapher, but a fervent musician and eminent teacher. She devoted much of her long life to teaching the qin, the antique seven stringed zither, at a time when the heritage of the ancient culture was threatened with extinction in China. This efined, demanding music, seen by literati as a path to self-awareness, has here been recorded by her pupils in the very place where it was taught, the Yinyin Study. "the room of the unfathomable virtue of the qin"

Recordings : 1956; 1966-1989. Texts : Georges Goormaghtigh
2 CD