Su Chang's Guzheng performance in "Hundred Flowers Lead" is from the guzheng ensemble album "Chang Xiang Zheng Group".
Chang Xiang Zheng Group - Guzheng Ensemble Album was officially released by Beijing Global Audio & Video Publishing Co., LTD on June 21, 2022 (Summer Solstice).
Su Chang, associate professor of the Department of Folk Music of the Central Conservatory of Music, is a famous zither performer and the artistic director of Chang Xiang Zither Troupe. The Chang Xiang Zheng Troupe was planned and formed by Su Chang in 2017. The average age of members of the troupe is 18 years old, and the youngest member is 11 years old. It is composed of undergraduates from the Central Conservatory of Music and affiliated High School students. This album, led by teacher Su Chang and 14 students, gathered outstanding composers from all over the country and collected 14 pieces with different styles. It includes traditional music, modern music, transplanted and adapted Western music and original works of students. The Changxiang Zheng Group is committed to carrying forward traditional Chinese culture, showing the charm of the guzheng, and trying to make the Guzheng with a history of more than 2,000 years radiate new style in various forms.
A Hundred Flowers by Zhou Yanjia
"Hundred Flowers Lead" is a zheng song of Shaanxi school. It was composed by Mr. Zhou Yanjia, the leader of Qin Zheng, based on the qupai of Shaanxi Meizhu music "Picking Flowers" and "Rolling Pumpkins". The whole song consists of A, B and A. The first and last pieces of "Picking Flowers" are all bitter tone scale, but here it presents a beautiful picture of bright spring, bees and butterflies flying, flowers in full bloom and competition for beauty with a lively rhythm and pleasant mood. The middle B "Rolling Pumpkin", belongs to the happy tone style, the Northwest people's cheerful, happy, comfortable new life performance incisively and vividly. Is a lively, beautiful lyrical spring dance.