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China / Peking opera

Wen Zhao Pass: “A bright full moon shines at the window”

Wu Zixu, a fugitive held up at the Zhao Pass, lies awake through the night in slow erhuang manban — one of the central laosheng arias. Sung unaccompanied by a female laosheng performer; recorded in Beijing on 27 March 2017 for a music-research corpus.

Performer
Liao Jiani (廖佳尼)
Instrument
Voice 聲
Recorded
2017
Length
7:45
Licence
CC BY-NC · Liao Jiani (廖佳尼), Jingju a Cappella Recordings Collection, CompMusic project (Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra), CC BY-NC 4.0
Source
Internet Archive

In the collection

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  2. 洪羊洞Hóng yáng dòng — Hongyang CaveTan Xinpei (譚鑫培) · Voice, Jīnghú3:17
  3. 戰太平Zhàn tài píng — Battle at TaipingTan Xinpei (譚鑫培) · Voice, Jīnghú3:26
  4. 託兆碰碑Tuō zhào pèng bēi — The Dream Message and the SteleTan Xinpei (譚鑫培) · Voice, Jīnghú6:50
  5. 四郎探母Sì láng tàn mǔ — The Fourth Son Visits His MotherTan Xinpei (譚鑫培) · Voice, Jīnghú6:33
  6. 烏盆記Wū pén jì — The Black BasinTan Xinpei (譚鑫培) · Voice, Jīnghú6:51