A historic recording of "Haiqing Na Tian'e"《海青拿天鹅》(Gyrfalcon Seizes a Swan), a dramatic solo piece for pipa (琵琶, Chinese 4-stringed pear-shaped lute) in the martial style (Chinese: wu qu, 武曲), performed by Pudong school (Chinese: Pudong pai, 浦东派) pipa master Lin Shicheng (林石城, 1922-2005), using a pipa with 4 xiang (lower frets) and 13 pin (upper frets) and silk strings (丝弦四项十三品琵琶).

Recorded in China in 1956.

Like Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata or Grosse Fuge, "Haiqing Na Tian'e" is a very long and complex piece (especially when played at its original length), which contains sounds and techniques that, even to modern ears, may sound outlandish, grotesque, or violent. Learning this piece may involve a significant investment of time and effort, which the player may not consider worthwhile if the audience may react with shock rather than amazement, so most pipa players choose to focus on other, more famous martial pieces such as "Shi Mian Mai Fu"《十面埋伏》(Ambush from All Sides) and "Ba Wang Xie Jia"《霸王卸甲》(The Tyrant Removes His Armor).

The piece, which depicts the use of trained birds of prey (gyrfalcons) to hunt swans, an ancient way of life practiced as part of the culture of Central Asian nomadic groups such as the Mongols, and later adopted by the Manchus as well as the Chinese aristocracy as a royal pastime, features the use of such unusual techniques as "throttling" the neck of the pipa by grabbing all four strings with the left hand and bending them back and forth (or even shaking the whole instrument) while tremoloing vigorously with the right hand, producing a sound effect reminiscent of a swan being strangled. The piece is said to date back to the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), during which time the Mongols were in fact the rulers of China, though the earliest scores we have for it probably date from the Qing Dynasty. The name of the original composer is unknown.

This recording is from the "Memory of the World - Chinese Traditional Music Sound Archives" (“世界的记忆——中国传统音乐录音档案”), which is maintained by the Chinese National Academy of Arts (中国艺术研究院), which was established in April 1951 in Beijing.
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【丝弦琵琶】林石城 独奏《海青拿天鹅》1956年录
录音来源：“世界的记忆——中国传统音乐录音档案”网站
根据资料看林先生早年录音大致有两批一批是1953年沈浩初先生去世后录制的还有一批是后来北上任教后1956年在音乐研究所录

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