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My Recordings

Here is a collection of pieces from my recitals. Due to limited storage space, only a few songs are uploaded at the moment. More songs will be added or updated periodically. Please click the play button (the triangle facing right of the front panel of the simulated tape player) to start. Please email me if you have difficulty hearing the music.

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Pamir - my beautiful homeland

A folk song from northwest of China bordering Russia. These nomands love to sing and dance. Here they praise the Pamir, their homeland

Sister Hong Tsai

This is a popular Chinese folk song. The version sung here was composed by A. Tcherepine specially for Mr. Yi-Kwei Sze.

Phoenix-Shaped Hair Pin

This Chinese art song was composed by Ying Shu-Ren based on the famous poem of Lu Yiu with the same title: Video version is on YouTube.

Tender are your hands,

burgundy is the color of wine in my hand.

I see willow trees everywhere in the court yard.

It is spring time again!

Bothering me is the breeze!

It never bring me happiness.

As I recalled the lamentable days of the past.

I realized that many, many years had gone by.

Yes, many, many years had gone by.

Yet I don't know what to do, but sign.

Awful! Awful! Awful!

Was I not a blade of grass in meadow green

by Peter Tchaikovsky

A song of a young maiden's sorrow at her wedding night as she was forced to marry an old man: "Was I not a blade of grass in meadow green. Growing fair and free mid fertile fields, serene... The sun's scorching rays my being withered... Was I not my father's highest joy and pride, growing like a flower at my mother's side? Yet now they force a bride wreath upon me, and a gray beard I shrink from has won me. Ah, my heart! How hard is life to bear. Ah, heavy is my load of sorrow ever." (sung in Russian)

Ave Maria (Gonoud)

Vdeo of Ave Maria is on You Tube.

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, 1st movement

The leading composer in Brazil, H. Vila-Lobos (1887-1959) wrote 9 pieces of music called Bachianas Brasileiras in the style that he felt Bach would have written them had he been born in Brazil. The most famous one of these Bachianas Brasileiras is the first movement of No. 5. It scores for voice and 8 cellists. Wendy Reynolds joined by her fellow cello friends accompanied me under the conducting of John Maltester.

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Tree and Vine 樹和藤 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1gCVmKFY_4&feature=email

This is an old recording and is now on YouTube.