Tsai Hsiao-Yueh - The Wind In the Sycamores
Courtly Ballads of Southern China
The Nan kuan repertoire was discovered in the West and in France in 1982 through the Dutch sinologist Kristofer Schipper. This discovery was a veritable revelation. Taiwan preserved court music from southern China that had disappear completely from that region and emigrated and took refuge in Taiwan under inexplicable circumstances. This genere has an aristocratic touch that has been maintained in the bourgeoisie of Taiwan and circles of its connoisseurs. This piece is composed of a chamber ensemble of four musicians. Two of them play the pipa and sanxian lutes, a third one a dongxiao vertical flute, and a fourth one an erxian two-strings bowed instrument. According to tradition the musicians sorround the solo female singer who conducts the ensemble with p'ai-pan clappers. Composed of ballads, the repertoires consist of courtly songs.
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