Sword Dance 劍器 liuqin solo 柳琴獨奏 by Xu Changjun
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Wandering Voices - a musical journey from Ancient China to contemporary Europe • 24 Oct 2009, The Forge, London • Cheng-Ying Chuang - liuqin, Shan-Han Fang - digital animation • http://www.cchuang.net • • Xu Changjun composed Sword Dance with Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's poetry in mind when he was a student at Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1970s. It is now recognised as a contemporary masterpiece for solo liuqin. The poetry portrays the choreography: 'as swift as piercing arrows; as splendid as the flying dragons; comes like the furious lightning; and goes like the flickering shimmers'.
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