一代名家洞箫大师陈重音乐教育家、吹弹大师，天津音乐学院教授陈重，1919年出生于上海，自幼对江南丝竹音乐有独好，追随舅父学习二胡、笛子、十二岁参加民间的丝竹集会等演出活动。1936年师从著名演奏家孙裕德学习琵琶及洞箫，又向古琴大师张子谦，吴景恬学习古琴，他博采众长，在笛子、洞箫、琵琶、古琴、二胡、古埙等多种乐器上，均有很高的造诣，为国内有数的民乐多面手之一。他先后改编创作了琵琶、二胡、中胡三重奏《青春》；吹打乐《大步步高》；笛子曲《怀古》、《朝元歌》；箫、筝二重奏《妆台秋思》；埙筝二重奏《楚歌》等乐曲。1956年参加文化部、中国单协首届音乐周、同年九月应邀担任沈阳音专笛子教学，1957年先后在天津，河北师院、音乐学院担任琵琶、笛子、洞箫、古琴教学，并兼任中央音院、民族学院、解放军艺术学院专业教学多年。1979年对古乐器陶埙进行了研究，改革、制成了九孔、十孔陶埙，并自编乐曲，在国内外产生巨大影响，1994年75岁高龄的陈重先后赴日本、法、瑞士、意大利、德国、美国、香港、台湾等地请学、演出、受到极高的赞誉。三十余年的教学及六十多年的艺术活动，造就弟子满天下，被中国前音协主席品骥赞为“民族正声”。
Chen Zhong
Music from Shanghai
法国OCORA公司出品
Chen Zhong is one of China's most revered musicians and teachers. Seventy-five when this recording was made, he has spent a lifetime playing several instruments and keeping the Shanghai style alive. This is music for two, three, or four play and Zhong is accompanied by two Chinese musicians and the French Sino-musicologist Francois Picard. In various combinations they play flutes, ocarina, fiddles, and zithers. The ocarina in question is not the Western ocarina of course, but a round clay flute with a 7000-year history; reviving its use in secular music is one of Zhong's many achievements. Zhong plays solo pipa (lute) on one track and exhibits some impressive fingerpicking. On another, Zhong plays end-blown flute (something like a recorder) and is accompanied by Yang Lining on the zheng zither, which in this piece is strummed gorgeously in the manner of a harp. In general, the music is refined but always listenable. A pleasant addition to a Chinese classical music collection.
