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The Hugo Masters: An Anthology of Chinese Classical Music | 
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| Artist: Hugo Masters
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Category: Music
List Price: $50.45
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 215742
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.4 x 1.9
UPC: 013711990126
EAN: 0013711990126
ASIN: B000000809
Release Date: April 10, 1995
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Night Thoughts - Hugo Masters, | | • | Spring Morning in Suzhou - Hugo Masters, Deng Jian-dong | | • | Stroll of New Town - Hugo Masters, | | • | Little Piece of Henan - Hugo Masters, Liu Ming-yuan | | • | Listening to the Pines - Hugo Masters, Hua Yan-jun | | • | Crescent Moon at Dawn - Hugo Masters, | | • | Zhong Hua Liu Ban - Hugo Masters, | | • | Flicking of Candles - Hugo Masters, Liu Tian-hua | | • | Market Gathering - Hugo Masters, | | • | Rains Patterning at Plantain Leaves - Hugo Masters, Traditional | | • | Lament of Zhaojun - Hugo Masters, Traditional | | • | Beautiful Scene of Spring - Hugo Masters, Traditional | | • | Xiaoyao Ferry - Hugo Masters, |
Disc 2
| • | Ambush - Hugo Masters, | | • | Like Waves Against Sand - Hugo Masters, Hua Yan Jun | | • | Sword Dance - Hugo Masters, Xu Chang Jun | | • | Moonlit Night of Stone Forest - Hugo Masters, Lin Ji Liang | | • | Petrel - Hugo Masters, Han Zhi Ming | | • | Beyond the Great Wall - Hugo Masters, Traditional | | • | The Defeating Song of Chu - Hugo Masters, |
Disc 3
| • | Journey to Suzhou - Hugo Masters, | | • | Fisherman Song - Hugo Masters, Yan Tieming | | • | San Wu Qi - Hugo Masters, | | • | A Spray of Flower - Hugo Masters, | | • | Song of Green River - Hugo Masters, Wu Tian Chi | | • | Autumn Meditation at Dressing Desk - Hugo Masters, Traditional | | • | Three Variations of Plum Blossom - Hugo Masters, Traditional | | • | Morning in Miao Mountain - Hugo Masters, Bai Chengren | | • | Beating Down the Dates - Hugo Masters, Traditional | | • | Phoenix at the Lakeshore - Hugo Masters, | | • | Love Song of Mountain Village - Hugo Masters, | | • | Herdsman Song - Hugo Masters, Jian Guangyi | | • | A Rank-Seven Official - Hugo Masters, Traditional | | • | The Idle Song-Thrush - Hugo Masters, Traditional |
Disc 4
| • | Zhoushan Luo-Gu - Hugo Masters, Traditional | | • | Rumbling Ocean, Pt. 1 - Hugo Masters, Li Min-Xiong | | • | Rumbling Ocean, Pt. 2 - Hugo Masters, Li Min-Xiong | | • | Rumbling Ocean, Pt. 3 - Hugo Masters, Li Min-Xiong | | • | Rumbling Ocean, Pt. 4 - Hugo Masters, Li Min-Xiong | | • | General's Victory - Hugo Masters, | | • | Squabbling Ducks - Hugo Masters, An Zhi-Shun | | • | Kwai Gu Duan - Hugo Masters, | | • | Celebrating Lantern Festival - Hugo Masters, | | • | Shi-Ba-Liu-Si-Er - Hugo Masters, | | • | Great Harvest - Hugo Masters, Li Min-Xiong | | • | Day of Jubilant - Hugo Masters, Li Min-Xiong | | • | Flying Dragons and Jumping Tigers - Hugo Masters, Li Min-Xiong | | • | Pine, Bamboo, Plum - Hugo Masters, Traditional |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Chinese classical music is a much larger field than Western classical music. It covers a huge geographical area as well as a time frame of thousands of years. Although some of China's musical instruments have changed very little in hundreds or thousands of years, others were adapted to Western standards under the influence of Russian musicians during the middle of this century. In some cases, frets were added to non-chromatic instruments and tonalities standardized. The liner notes of The Hugo Masters: An Anthology of Chinese Classical Music contain extensive documentation of the various instruments used in Chinese solo and orchestral music, with descriptions of their history and modifications, as well as an essay to help Western listeners understand the background of Chinese classical music.The instruments fall into four categories, each constituting a separate compact disk:
Volume One: Bowed Strings
Volume Two: Plucked Strings
Volume Three: Woodwinds
Volume Four: Percussion
These disks are available individually or as a collector's series in a beautifully designed silk boxed set. The music itself is highly varied and richly emotional. The music paints pictures of China's people, their culture and homeland, and their dreams and their despair. The Hugo Masters: An Anthology of Chinese Classical Music is a joint effort of the Hugo and Celestial Harmonies labels to bring this definitive anthology to listeners worldwide. This is the first time these recordings have become available to audiences outside of Hong Kong. For listeners unfamiliar with Chinese classical music, these works are a powerful and emotional awakening.
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| Customer Reviews:
A Rare Masterwork February 26, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
The man who put this together, Aik Yew-goh, did it with very older artisans that were directly of the Chinese traditional music prior to the 1911 revolution. He is a musician as well as an engineer and producer and used exceptional equipment to record these master recordings, traveling all across China carrying tons of equipment with the intent of documenting it's breadth. He succeeded.
As others indicate this is amazingly accessible to Western ears, because of it's cross-cultural qualities of obvious skill and musical scope. Great notes too. If there were a to be a single collection of Chinese music for the novice it would be this one. They slipped out of print and now apparently are back. One can only hope more offerings from the Hugo label will see the light of day.
Fasacinating, intense, joyful, profound---a delight August 4, 1999
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
These four CDs survey the best of Chinese traditional music, focusing on the four types of instruments: plucked instruments, bowed instruments, wind instruments, and percussion. The variety and range keeps this set from ever getting dull, and the music touches every conceivable emotion. This is a set to be experienced. My only regret is that there aren't more volumes in the series. If you are hesitant about this sounding like Chinese restaurant music, don't worry. This seems to be the genuine article, not influenced by Western music or muzak. Some of the instrumentalists on these CDs take your breath away with their technical proficiency and power. If you think you'd like to try some authentic Chinese music, this may be the only set you'll ever need.
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