Wu Man

Wu Man
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About the artist

Wu Man (Chinese: 吴蛮; pinyin: Wú Mán; born 1963 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China) is a Chinese pipa and ruan player and composer. She is an exponent of the Pudong School of pipa playing. She studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where her instructors included Lin Shicheng, Kuang Yuzhong, Chen Zemin, and Liu Dehai. She became the first recipient of a master's degree in pipa and won the first prize in the 1989 National Music Performance Competition.

Top songs

  1. Chinese Music For The Pipa: Yue'er Gao - The Moon On High
  2. Raining
  3. Nandere
  4. Chen Sui (Chen Sui)
  5. Night Rider
  6. White Snow In A Sunny Spring
  7. Night Thoughts
  8. Fu I
  9. I'm Going Back To North Carolina
  10. Invocation
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  1. Xiao Yue Er Gao (High Little Moon)
  2. Love Song
  3. Dance Of The Yi People
  4. The Round Sun and Cresent Moon In the Sky
  5. Waves Lapping At The Shore
  6. Green (Vincent's Tune)
  7. Cossack Lament
  8. Bat-Out-Of-Hell Kozachok
  9. Cambodian Free Tune
  10. Old Joe Clark
  11. Wang Zhao Jun
  12. The Generals Order (Jiang Jun Ling)
  13. Tori
  14. Namu Amida (Homage to the Buddha of Immeasurable Light)
  15. Mountain Temple Bell at Sunset
  16. Auspicious-Clouds Music
  17. An Immortal Splahes the Ink
  18. Misty Rain on the Eastern Mountain
  19. Leaves Flying in Autumn
  20. A Spring Flowing Over Stones
  21. The Three Terraces
  22. Luntai and the Waves of Lake Kokonor
  23. Dengyue jiaohui
  24. Xiao Yue Er Gao
  25. Kazakh Song
  26. Dancing!
  27. Improvisation for Three and a Half Instruments
  28. Kurt Naxshisi (Song of the Kurds)
  29. From A Distance
  30. Ambushed Again
  31. The General’s Order
  32. Shanghai Blues
  33. Chebiyat
  34. Vincent's Tune
  35. Wulin Yiyun
  36. Dengyue Jiiaohui - Lanterns And Moon Competing In Brilliance (China)
  37. Bawang xie jia
  38. Dian - The Points, By Chen Yi, 1991 (China)
  39. Ancient Spirits
  40. Ancient Shadows
  41. Bawang Xie Jia (The Tyrant Removes His Armour)
  42. Wulin Yiyun (Ancient Melodies Of Wulin)
  43. Laying An Ambush On All Sides
  44. Shadiana (Celebration)
  45. Chen Sui (Chen And Sui Dynasties)
  46. Dian
  47. Chen Sui
  48. Dengyue Jiaohui (Lanterns And the Moon Competing in Brilliance)
  49. Xu Lai
  50. White Crane Flying
  51. Yue'er gao
  52. Hangzhou Blues
  53. xiyang xiaogu
  54. Walking to the East
  55. Xiao Yue Er Gao (High Little Moon) (Chinese)
  56. Xu Lai (Sounds Of Nature, By LIU Tianhua, 1929)
  57. Dengyue Jiiaohui
  58. 思春 (琵琶獨奏)
  59. Dian (The Points, By Chen Yi, 1991)
  60. Flute And Drum At Sunset - Xiyang Xiaogu
  61. An Immortal Splashes the Ink
  62. Bamboo Dreams
  63. Untitled
  64. Crescent Moon Over The Mountain
  65. Journey
  66. The Mantra of Pu'an
  67. Yue'er Gao (The Moon Is High)
  68. NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
  69. C-A-G-E IV
  70. Niao Tou Lin
  71. Improvisation, for Pipa Solo
  72. 霓裳曲 (琵琶、二胡、簫合奏)
  73. 春/Spring
  74. Yue'er Gao (The Moon on High)
  75. Shimian Maifu (Ambush on All Sides)
  76. 冬/Winter (静夜思/Night Thoughts II)
  77. 夏/Summer
  78. Xiao Pu'an Zhou
  79. Han'gong qiuyue
  80. Niao Tou Lin - Birds In The Forest
  81. Full Circle
  82. Xiao Pu'an Zhou: - The Mantra Of Pu'an
  83. Run
  84. han'gong qiuyue: autumn moon over the han palace
  85. Dancing
  86. Dengyue jiaohui (Lanterns and moon competing in brilliance)
  87. 秋/Autumn
  88. The Round Sun and Crescent Moon In the Sky
  89. Run, by Bun-ching LAM, 1993
  90. Chinese Music for the Pipa

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