On the evening of October 8, the second performance of the 2021 "Masters Charity" series, Li Xiuying's solo concert, was performed at cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall. On the first day of returning from the National Day holiday, music fans and friends were still enthusiastic, and the audience was full of people to spend a wonderful music night!
Soprano Li Xiuying, together with her gold medal partner pianist Feng Jiayin, and a number of young musicians presented a concert of Chinese and foreign vocal works full of vitality, showing classic masterpieces of diverse styles with their songs.
The piano melody opened the whole concert, a female chorus led the audience into "Beautiful Night", this opera "Hoffman's Story" excerpt in the 6 female musicians rich singing, it is particularly flexible and beautiful.
As soon as Li Xiuying appeared, the audience gave a warm applause, and then she brought a number of art songs by composer Bellini and Richard Strauss. As the repertoire changes, her emotions are sometimes eager and sometimes sad, and she uses her songs to immerse the audience in the pious nostalgia of "All Souls' Day", and then feel the righteousness of love in "Dedication".
At the scene, in addition to singing art songs, Li Xiuying also specially prepared the excerpt "Madame Butterfly Entrance Wedding Aria" that she had participated in, from the whispered narration to the intensity of the intensification, and finally the high note broke out, the audience's emotions were deeply brought into it by her full singing, and the applause could not stop for a long time.
The second half opened with a male chorus, "Half Moon Climb Up", a popular song called "Chinese Serenade". In the first half of the concert, Li Xiuying carefully selected a number of foreign classic songs, and in the second half, a special performance of Chinese classic songs was arranged, spanning classical to modern times, presenting a musical feast belonging to autumn for Shanghai lovers.
Immediately afterward, "Want to Kiss the Mother", "Lover Send Me Sunflowers", "Broken Bridge Dream", 3 Chinese art songs and 3 works of art taken from Tang poems and Song Lyrics , "Lin Hua Thank Chunhong", "Slow Voice", "Guan Ju" were presented one by one, in the face of a more familiar song background, the audience listened to it like a mesmerized, Li Xiuying's affectionate singing touched everyone.
"What does it mean for a river of spring water to flow eastward?" How sad can you have? Subsequently, more than 10 young musicians took to the stage and jointly completed the interpretation of the opera "A River of Spring Water" excerpt "Me and Him" with Li Xiuying, which pushed the audience's emotions to a climax, after Li Xiuying had played this role in the opera.
It is worth mentioning that the 13 young musicians who sang at the concert this time are all students of Teacher Li Xiuying, in addition to bringing choral repertoire, Liu Zhe and Liu Yuye also brought 2 solo songs.
In this "Master Charity" solo concert, Li Xiuying is not only a favorite singer, but also a good teacher, leading students from undergraduate to graduate school to present this wonderful concert, and also let the audience who love music witness the growth of young musicians.
After the performance, the audience applauded endlessly, and in the enthusiastic anticipation of the audience, Li Xiuying, together with pianist Feng Jiayin, and all the young musicians participating in the performance, added two return songs "Kangding Love Song" and "My Sun", ending this wonderful solo concert with warm breath and unrestrained melody.
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