CHINESE LIEDER
Jingma Fan, tenor
Reinild Mees, piano

Review by Dominy Clements – MusicWeb International – July 2008

My claim to an affinity with Chinese culture derives almost entirely from a period in which I worked as a freelance text editor – in English – for the Chinese embassy in The Hague. Part of the rewards for checking tourist brochures, speeches and articles on subjects such as the marvellous Hubei ‘Chime Bells’, a replica set of which recently toured in Europe, were gifts of numerous CDs of Chinese music in a variety of arrangements.     Continue reading →