19:00 望春風 "Longing for a Spring Breeze". His erhu sounds right to my ear - the introduction for the orchestrated folk song. I have heard older Taiwanese masters playing in the tape. In the old days street musicians also came to play at the door way of each house in our village. I heard their music with my own ears and I knew their style. With this background, I always felt, when the Chinese erhuists play Taiwanese folk tunes, the "Taiwanese flavor" is just not there. Myself, too, try to play the "native" style from the gut strings strung on my erhu.
Beautiful arrangement. The traditional musical instruments: such as erhu, bamboo flute, hammer dulcimer ... are still the better instruments to play folk songs or traditional music than western instruments 30:06