On the evening of January 15, the "Citizen Fun Time 2022 Chinese New Year Concert" set sail magnificently at the Beijing Concert Hall, which specially invited the Asian Philharmonic Orchestra to perform 16 Chinese and foreign classic symphony works, bringing a high-level musical feast, with more than 1,000 seats, full of seats, which is a rare offline concert during the epidemic, and this concert also sent New Year blessings to nearly a thousand audiences.
Among them, the concerto "Century Wind" brought by the young Bayan player Liu Yiwei was the world premiere and bloomed on the Chinese stage for the first time. The repertoire, conducted by the famous conductor Mr. Xia Xiaotang and performed by the Asian Philharmonic Orchestra, is enough to see the weight of this original work. "Century of Wind" is a 2021 commissioned composer Liu Hao to compose the Bayan and String Quartet. Since its premiere at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, the work has toured more than a dozen concert halls in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Xi'an, Shenzhen and other cities. The whole work is based on the basic art of Shanghai school culture, and depicts an art form with traditional cultural characteristics and national cultural characteristics in a musical language. It has both the classicism and elegance of traditional culture and the modernity and fashion of an international metropolis, with a unique style of openness and self-containedness. When interpreting the concerto works, an excellent performer must not only show the essence of the work, but also have the ability to control the orchestra with the conductor tacitly, show the soul in more music, and let the whole work be like a vibrant poem, with infinite vitality, this 15-year-old girl did it, she used the keys to pluck the heartstrings of the audience, warm this cold night, her wonderful performance made the audience marvel. The whole work was completed in one go, and after the song was played, the applause was thunderous, and many viewers could not help but cheer.
On the evening of January 14, cellist Xu Yulian's solo concert "Bloom" was successfully held at the Beijing Concert Hall. In this concert, Piazola's tango work "Forgetting", and the specially adapted chamber music version of "Century Winds", jointly performed by Professor Huang Mengmeng, a famous pianist and chamber musician of the Central Conservatory of Music, Chen Guang, general secretary of the Party and trumpet professor of the Orchestra Department, Professor Su Zhen, doctoral supervisor of the Central Conservatory of Music and famous viola player, and Liu Yiwei, a young Bayan player from shanghai conservatory of music and a teenager Bayan player, were successfully staged. Among them, the work "Century Wind" for the first time integrated two instruments of trumpet and viola, before that, there was cello, piano, bayan trio, as well as bayan and string quartets and quintets with bass. And this time it was re-adapted, and the on-site response was also very strong.
As the youngest performer, Liu Yiwei's amazing performance in the performance made the audience full of expectations and appreciation for this young player! At the same time, due to bayan's addition, it has also become the finishing touch in the entire ensemble performance. On the stage, Liu Yiwei uses her dexterous ten fingers to navigate the dense arrangement of keys and twists, she is like a singer of the heart to express and transmit strong love and emotion, she uses the most sincere heart to inject the brilliance of life into classical music.
"Sanjiu Snowflakes Drifting" just came to an end on January 22, the "Chinese Symphony Orchestra Chinese and Foreign Classic Chamber Music Concert", which became Liu Yiwei's closing report performance of the year, and also successfully concluded his 2021.
In this concert, she collaborated with the performers of the Chamber Orchestra of the China Symphony Orchestra, including violinist Liu Zhiyong, violinist Li Ruoyun, viola player Zhang Sihua, cellist Zhang Bo, and bassist Zhai Hang, with Bayan and the string quintet "Century Of Winds". The melody combines the fiery heat of South American style with the low melancholy of classical music, which surprises the audience again and again. The Romanian dance song "Spring", which returned to the scene in warm applause, pushed the festive atmosphere to a climax. At the end of the song, Liu Yiwei and all the performers (string quintet and clarinetist Wang Jing, percussionist Pu Jia, and pianist Li Schumann) returned to Gao Xin's adaptation of Bayan and the octet "My Motherland and Me". This high-standard concert interprets the classical music of the perfect combination of elegance and height, and creates an audiovisual feast of the symphony orchestra chamber orchestra that integrates blessing and love, popularization and art.
As a special guest of the China Symphony Orchestra, Liu Yiwei's performance can be described as remarkable. She often says that there is a feeling that can only happen in concert halls and rehearsal halls, arenas and examination halls. Only truly love can last. At the concert, Liu Yiwei was deeply intoxicated and devoted himself to playing music with different emotions. Under her careful interpretation, the whole work seems to be injected with flexible blood, better than a thousand words, sometimes tactful and melodious, sometimes quiet into moving. She played wholeheartedly, the audience was deeply infected, the music flowed in the sky, the melody rippled in the hearts of the audience, and after the performance, the applause of the audience was endless.
Liu Yiwei on the stage is calm, atmospheric, confident and elegant, and exudes the rhythm of musical notes. Her skillful playing and deep understanding of music do not show that she has just turned 15 years old, and her wonderful performance has undoubtedly become the most beautiful "red" of this concert. (Text/Toyo)
Source: Beiqing Network