Deafening applause as the pipa pulls Polish heart strings

A Chinese quartet dazzled the audience at the recently held Warsaw Cross-Culture Festival that brought together rhythmic music from around the world.

The concert hall became extremely quiet as the four Chinese women started playing their instruments - pipa (lute), yangqin (dulcimer), guzheng (zither) and erhu (fiddle) - very gently.

The audience, which had been clapping all along to the beats of the other groups, listened attentively, before bursting into deafening applause at the end of each piece.