Mar 07 2008
The Butterfly Lovers
The dance is nothing special, but the music she danced to is one of two my most favored concertos out of China. I bought this CD in Wangfujing - I was just thinking how nice would it be to find a CD with both concertos: Sheng Zhongguo playing the Butterfly Lovers violin concerto and Yin Chengzong on the piano for Yellow River piano concerto while at the book store there, 
.. a small wish came true. I’ve made quite few copies for friends. The music in this dance is played by erhu (I think) .. I would love to find another symphony orchestra playing those two concertos - how about wishing for NY Phil .. but haven’t, yet. This CD’s recording and the orchestra could have been a bit better.