12:30 HAMABE NO UTA 浜辺の歌
No exaggeration. His 'HAMABE NO UTA' is the closest
to the singing versions. It is as beautiful as that played by the master cellists
(below):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Ｍ，マレシャル チェロ独奏
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Julian Lloyd Webber w/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A brief story of 許可Xu Ke's musical adventure:
As a kid, Xu Ke joined a prestigious Nanjing Little Red Flower ensemble 南京小紅花, except he had to play the 3-string plucked instrument 三弦 because there were too many erhu players. Xu said when he was studying at the Central Conservatory of Music 中央音樂學院 (1977-1982), he participated in the violin, cello, piano and conducting master classes （1978 Seiji Ozwa and 1979 Issac Stern visiting Beijing）even though the authority thinks those majoring in the erhu just work on the Chinese music and instruments. He went with a Chinese music orchestra to work in Sheng-jun深圳 (1985), but he played the electric keyboard. (At the time, I was corresponding with a 瀋陽音樂學院 Sheng-Yang Conservatory of Music graduate, who played the harp in the orchestra. She wrote in a letter that there was an erhu player with the name of 許可.) Xu Ke decided he might as well worked at the night club. Then he mad a bundle. With the money, he launched an erhu recital in Beijing and it was a success. He was invited to the home of 劉天華Liu Tian-hua's nephew and was suggested also by Liu's daughter he would be the ideal successor of Liu Ten-hua. He went abroad to study in Japan (東京芸術大学 Tokyo University of the Arts 1988). He figured, at its worst, he could still make a living by playing the electric keyboard (he was wrong on this). He played Chinese music in the 1st recital his friends helped organize and was deeply disappointed to find folks in the front row fell asleep, waking up only to applaud when the song was over. That was the end of the erhu classic for him. Meanwhile he noticed Japanese were into (fond of) western classical music and he would give it a try. One (and the decisive one) opportunity came when a Japanese composer, producer and critic, who was friendly to China, asked him what he could play during a radio station broadcast. He played the fast movement of 流浪者之歌Sarasate Zigeunerweisen. So much impressed, the Japanese producer told him he would play precisely that song the next year with Tokyo Symphony orchestra (1990).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O8dzcEhXvo
Documentary of Xu Ke (erhu) in Shanghai 許可（二胡奏者）の上海における音楽ドキュメンタリー番組 Part II
The rest is history.
許可（シュィ・クゥ） 胡弓のメロディー
東洋のゆらぎと西洋のメロディーの邂逅
BMG Japan 2001 June 20
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