Cheng-Zong Yin

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Yin Chengzong (Chinese: 殷承宗; pinyin: Yīn Chéngzōng) (born 1941) is a Chinese pianist and composer. Born on the "Piano Island" of Gulangyu in Xiamen, Fujian Province, in the People's Republic of China. Although trained as a classical pianist, he is perhaps best known to the West through the Yellow River Piano Concerto he arranged based on the Yellow River Cantata and performed in many Western theaters since the 1980s. Yin started learning the piano in 1948 when he was seven years old, and gave his first recital at the age of nine. At twelve, he joined the preparatory school of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 1959, Yin won an award at the World Youth Peace and Friendship Festival in Vienna, Austria, and in 1960, he was sent to the Leningrad Conservatory to study. In 1962, he was the second-prize winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Vladimir Ashkenazy took the first-prize). In 1965, Yin joined the Central Symphony Orchestra of China as a soloist. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), when all Western arts and forms were forbidden, Yin ingeniously found an application of his talent: he created the piano-accompanied version of The Legend of the Red Lantern, one of the Eight model plays, the only plays, operas and ballets which were permitted during the period. Although, musically speaking, there was not much originality in the work, it was refreshing for genuine music lovers who were longing to have access to Western music. Another creation attributed t

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The Yellow River - Piano Concerto

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Chu / Liu / Sheng / Xu / Yin / Shi: Yellow River Piano Concerto (The) / Chinese Works For Piano Solo

黃河鋼琴協奏曲

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Chu / Liu / Sheng / Xu / Yin / Shi: Yellow River Piano Concerto (The)/ Chinese Works For Piano Solo

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Yellow River Piano Concerto (The) / Chinese Works for Piano Solo

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百鳥朝鳳

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别让我着急

The Yellow River Concerto

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不懂得也不需要

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Chu / Liu / Sheng / Xu / Yin / Shi: The Yellow River Piano Concerto - Chinese Works for Piano Solo

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中國作品集-紅燈記伴唱

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涙腺上のアリア~泣けるクラシック名曲集

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