To celebrate the release of her new album, Sketches of China, guitarist Xuefei Yang has made an exclusive video for Gramophone of one of the works from the recording - her own arrangement of Sword Dance by Changjun Xu.

Originally a piece for liquin, a four string instrument which looks like a small pipa and sounds similar to the mandolin, Sword Dance is a modern piece by the composer Changjun Xu, and based on an ancient poem from the Tang Dynasty by one of China's greatest poets, Fu Du (712-770).

Xuefei Yang also talks to Editor Martin Cullingford in the latest Gramophone podcast, which you can listen to or download below, or find at Gramophone's Apple Podcasts page.

Photographs: Neil Muir

Sketches of China is released today - you can listen to the album via Apple Music below.