May 29, 2021 7:30 p.m.
*Children under 1.2 meters are not allowed in this concert.
Tickets purchased are non-refundable.
artist
Song recitation: Chen Yanhua
Cao Yun Yangqin (Principal Yangqin, Shanghai Chinese Orchestra)
Sun Zhiyang Harp (Principal Harp, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra)
Yang Yang Percussion (Shanghai Chinese Orchestra Percussion)
track
Bach: Goldberg Variations (Arias and First Variations)
"I Want to Be a Rapids" Petofi
Bartók: Six Romanian folk dance pieces
Xiong Junjie: A message in the wind
An excerpt from The Birds Tagore
Autumn moon in Pinghu
"Spring River Flower Moon Night" Zhang Ruoxu
Spring River Flower Moon Night
-Intermission-
Debussy: Two Arabic-style pieces
Lullaby by Paul Celan
BEETHOVEN: Adelaide
Adelaide by Friedrich von Madison
Guzo Kokishi: Studio 92
"The River of Music - To Takeman toru" By Toshitaro Tanigawa
Albinoni: Flex plates
"I Like You're Silent" Neruda
Sicilian dance music
"When You're Old" Yeats
The last rose of summer
Xiong Junjie: Fingertip kicking
*The repertoire and order of the performance are subject to live performance.
Artist Profile
Chen Yanhua
Performing artist
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Former famous program host of Shanghai Television Station, she hosted and produced Shanghai Television children's programs "Swallow Mailbox", "Happy Moment", "Doll Music", "Kaleidoscope", etc., and became well known as Swallow's sister. He has won the "National Best TV Host Award", "Shanghai Youth Art Top Ten Awards", "Young Audience's Favorite TV Actress Award", "Excellent TV Performing Arts Award", and in 1989, the "Swallow Sister Telling Story" series of tapes won the "First National Golden Disc Award". He has starred in films such as "Troubled Happy Affair", "Postal Edge", "The Boyfriend of the Female Director" and so on. He once served as the host of "Flying The Pacific" on Oriental Television. Since 1986, China Record Company Shanghai Branch, Shanghai Audio-Visual Publishing House, Hong Kong Sanlian Bookstore, 21st Century Publishing House, Fudan University Press, Shanghai Music Publishing House, Children's Publishing House, East China Normal University Press, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, etc. have published more than 100 kinds of personal recitation tapes, CDs, picture book stories, ancient poem appreciation, etc., of which the "Swallow Sister Storytelling" series won the Golden Disc Award, selling more than one million and influencing generations.
Cao Yun
Dulcimer
Principal Yangqin Player of Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, National First Class Player, Director of Asian Yangqin Association Director of the Professional Committee of the National Orchestra Society of Shanghai Musicians Association. He graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2000 and has been the principal of the Yangqin Department of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra since 2003. In 2006, he participated in the "First Jiangnan Silk Bamboo Invitational Competition at Home and Abroad" sponsored by the National Orchestra Committee of the Chinese Musicians Association and won the first prize. In 2013, he participated in the exhibition and performance of Chinese national instrumental music folk music groups sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, and won the highest award, the Best Performance Award.
At the same time, she has continuously refined her playing skills, expanded the accumulation of repertoire, and interpreted many touching and tense dulcimer solo works with her free playing skills and far-reaching musical appeal. In recent years, she has also devoted herself to the promotion and dissemination of Haipai dulcimer and opened up the space for diversified interpretation of yangqin.
Sun Zhiyang
Harp player
Sun Zhiyang is a young harpist active in the music scene at home and abroad. He was inspired and studied under Professor Cao Chengjun and Professor Zhang Liduo, studied piano and studied under Associate Professor Xu Xinyi, and later entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Professor Zhang Xiaojie. In 2004, he entered the Hamburg Konservatorium in Germany, where he studied under harpist Professor Kotkina Irina, and in 2005 he was admitted to the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Hamburg with a full scholarship to study harp, where he studied harp with harp soloist Professor Xavier de Maistre.
So far, Sun Zhiyang has cooperated extensively with many well-known symphony orchestras around the world. In 2006 he joined yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now as a soloist with the Hamburg State Academy of Drama and Music Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Opera Orchestra, Hamburg Symphoniker, and in 2007 was invited to participate in the Schleswig-Holstein Summer Festival Festival）。 As a harp soloist, he has performed with the Hong Kong Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra, Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra and other orchestras. In 2015, he performed a concert with the famous harp master Xavier de Maistre in Shanghai, in 2016 he gave a solo concert at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, and in 2017 he performed a double harp concerto with Xavier de Maistre and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. As the principal harpist of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, he also devoted himself to chamber music, composing the "Wutong Duet" with the flute player Hu Zhe and the "Stars Duo" with the Yangqin player Cao Yun.
Yang Yang
Percussionist
Percussionist of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, graduated from the Orchestra Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He has accompanied the delegation to dozens of countries and regions on five continents: Asia, Africa, the United States, Europe and Australia. Proficient in all kinds of Chinese and Western percussion performances. He was a drummer who founded the blue moon jazz band and was active on the jazz stage in Shanghai. In 2005, he participated in the recording of the album of the famous Canadian jazz singer Amanda, served as a drummer in various concerts and theme performances, and cooperated with many well-known musicians and singers. With superb playing skills and rich performance experience, he also tried to create in many ways, and dared to expand the new artistic language of percussion.
Track introduction
Bach: Aria and The First Variations from the Gothenburg Variations
The Gothenburg Variations, originally titled "Aria with Variations", were composed by Bach at the invitation of Count Keizern between 1741 and 1742 to alleviate the Count's severe insomnia, and was played by Bach's tall foot and ancient piano musician Gothenburg. The whole work is divided into 32 paragraphs, and Bach uses a Saraband dance song written for his wife as the theme, which develops into 30 variations, and then reproduces the theme in the last paragraph, which can be described as the beginning and end echo. As the pinnacle of Bach's keyboard art, this work combines elements of a variety of European dance music in the Baroque period, and also covers the technical means of keyboard works in the Baroque period, and comprehensively reflects the characteristics of Bach's musical creation.
Aria, in G major, 3/4 beat, is a Sarabande dance song written on a line board, derived from a gentle sketch by Bach for his second wife, Anna Magdalina, in 1725. The slow three beats spread out a smooth, solemn, lyrical atmosphere;
First Variation, 3/4 beat, Prelude, Allegro. It ripples with pleasant breath and the rhythm is polished in the style of Polish dance music. The cheerful music, compared to the previous lyrical aria theme, presents a musical image that combines noble emotion and courageous heroic power.
"I Will Be a Rapid" is a lyric poem written by the Hungarian poet Sandor Petofi in 1847 and dedicated to his lover. The poem uses a series of "I wish" to elicit cleverly conceived images, repeatedly singing the steadfastness and desire for love, and confessing his love to his lover. The poem set off a craze for love poetry among Chinese youth in the 20th century.
Composed by the Hungarian composer Bartók in the mountains of Transylvania in 1915, after the First World War, Transylvania, which originally belonged to Hungary, belonged to Romania, hence the now widely circulated name , The Romanian Folk Dance. All the musical material of the work is derived from local folk dance music, and Bartók expresses folk music without embellishment through the simplest and most simple small pieces of music, perfectly showing the local folk music art of Romania.
The Six Romanian Folk Dances contains six small pieces, namely the rugged and powerful "Walking Stick Dance", the brisk "Flower Belt Dance", the ethereal "Step Dance", the melancholy "Bouzum Dance", the energetic "Romanian Style Polka Dance" and the cheerful "Fast Dance". They are colorful, varied in style and varied in rhythm, vividly illustrating romanian customs.
Composed by the famous yangqin player Xiong Junjie for the yangqin, the music slowly unfolds in the melodious tone of the yangqin, making the listener feel as if he is in nature and listening to the wind murmuring.
"Pinghu Autumn Moon" was originally a Cantonese song, derived from the northern minor key "Boudoir Dance", also known as "Drunken Taiping", which was later adapted into a folk song by the famous Guangdong musician Lu Wencheng and widely circulated in Cantonese opera music. The music is bright and fresh, with strong local characteristics and continuous lyricism, depicting the beautiful scenery of The moonlight and poetic beauty of Lingnan Lake in China, and expressing the author's feelings and love for the scenery of nature. In 1975, composer Mr. Chen Peixun adapted this song into a solo piano piece, making this piece of music with Chinese characteristics more widely known.
"Spring River Flower Moon Night", which was praised by Mr. Wen Yiduo as "the poem in the poem, the peak on the peak", has made countless readers fall in love with it for more than a thousand years. Zhang Ruoxuan, who left only two poems in his life, also because this poem is "lonely, but for everyone". This poem follows the old theme of Chen Sui Lefu, using the Qinglizhi full of life, with the moon as the main body and the river as the scene, depicting a beautiful and distant picture of the spring river and the moon and night in a trance, and expressing the sincere and moving parting of the wandering woman and the philosophical feelings of life. The whole poem has a total of 36 sentences, every four sentences change rhymes, the whole text integrates poetry, painting and philosophy as one, has a high aesthetic value, and is known as "a single piece covers the whole Tang".
"Spring River Flower Moon Night", also known as "Sunset Drum". The music has a beautiful artistic conception, a strict structure, a simple and elegant melody, a relatively stable and stretched rhythm, and a profound artistic conception with a subtle technique, which has a strong artistic appeal. The concept of this piece is also very clever, the whole song begins with the sound of drums and flutes, and the theme is rich in the water town of Jiangnan. With the continuous change and development of the theme, the artistic conception depicted in the music has gradually changed, so the subsequent sections use variations such as expansion, contraction, shifting of the sound area and changing the head and tail, and the onomatopoeia such as the sound of water waves and the sound of paddles to enrich the music, and the music is sometimes quiet and sometimes warm, vividly depicting the charming scenery of the spring river on the night of the moon, and praising the style and posture of the Jiangnan water town.
This is a set of piano sketches composed by the French composer Debussy in 1880. The tunes of the two pieces are bright and lively. The first song splits the left hand with a large number of left and right hand triplets and right hand triplets, showing a special sense of rhythm. With the soft whistling and slightly oriental style of the main melody, the audience is given a strange illusion: as if they are in a quiet and peaceful afternoon, the sun penetrates from the trees and sprinkles on the body. The middle part is more effective, as the song's passages culminate in a firm statement of the main chord in C major.
The second "Arabian Song" has a more relaxed sound, with a crisp, squeaky bird-like sound pattern that runs through the various sections from beginning to end, while the epilogue has a strange, virtual fugue style. The music section begins like two large pipes blowing, and after the middle section, the transposition is vivid and distinctive.
This is an artistic song written by Beethoven in Vienna in his early years, and the song is written in the form of a general score song, with several transpositions in the middle to strengthen the mood and changes of the song. At the beginning of the song, it uses a relatively slow "small broad board", and as the emotions go deeper into the "small allegro", it becomes faster and faster, the emotions are more and more intense, the tune is beautiful, the love is sincere, romantic and pure, like a breeze telling the love for the lover. The style contains italian arias, which differ from traditional German-Austrian art songs.
"Adelaide" friedrich von Madison
Beethoven composed a song of the same name in 1795 using a poem titled "Adelaide" by the then-critical poet Matthisen. The lyrics are beautiful, the music is warm and moving, and the tunes are varied and unified. The music echoes the imagery in the poem, blends into one, and the whole song is catchy and enduring.
Koki Yoshishi Guzo: Studio 92
"Studio 92" by Kokichi Guzzo for percussion is a very special piece, and its unpredictable rhythm makes the marimba's characteristics as a percussion instrument fully utilized, showing the crisp and dreamy tone of the marimba, adding a layer of mystery to the music.
Written by the famous Japanese poet, playwright and translator Toshitaro Tanigawa, his poems are concise, clean and pure, and seem to have a sense of Zen and ethereality, revealing a kind of sensual oriental wisdom.
The piece was compiled by the 20th-century Milanese music scholar Remo Giazotto based on fragments of a trio sonata by Albinoni found in the ruins of the Dresden Library. The music has both the original melodic style of Baroque, as well as modern rhythm and inspiration, and in the low and solemn and oppressive atmosphere of the organ, the violin is poignantly chanted, which is a real work of "soft board". It was also used as an interlude in the film Gallipoli set in the World War I "Battle of Gallipoli".
"I Like You Are Silent" is a love poem by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Most of the content directly expresses the poet's love for the silence and quietness of his lover, but in the end it reveals the poet's desire to break this silence: even a word, a look, let me know that you are not really dead, or let me know that you love me, so that I will be happy. Therefore, while expressing the poet's love, this poem focuses on showing the poet's desire to get a lover's response.
Bach's Sicilian Dance
Sicilian dance music is an ancient dance music that originated in Sicily, Italy, in the 17th and 18th centuries. The speed is slow and the tune is lyrical. This dance music often appeared in instrumental and vocal works during the Baroque period, and Bach's Sicilian Dance in G minor is included in Bach's Sonata of Flute and Harpsichord in E flat major, in which the flute's unique "Garant" style reflects Bach's exquisite conception.
"When You're Old" is a poem written by William Butler Yeats in 1893, a passionate and sincere love poem dedicated by Yeats to his friend Maude Gund. The language of poetry is concise, but the emotions are rich and real. The poem uses a variety of artistic expression techniques such as hypothetical imagination, contrast contrast, image emphasis, and symbolic sublimation, which reproduces the poet's unswerving love for Maude Gang, and also reveals the irreconcilable distance between love in reality and love in ideals.
Irish Folk: The Last Rose of Summer
The Last Rose of Summer is an old Irish ballad re-written by the eighteenth-century Irish poet Thomas Moore. The author uses the last rose of summer to compare love and youth to wither, and expresses the attachment to beautiful things when he is sorry. The structure of this folk song is short and melodic, with a slight sadness in the euphemistic lyricism, almost expressing a simple mood in a mumbling way, showing the melancholy temperament and romantic feelings characteristic of Irish music.
Adapted by yangqinist Xiong Junjie, "Fingertip Tap" with a strong Celtic national music style perfectly integrates the dulcimer with the Chinese national flavor with the harp, the oldest plucked stringed instrument in the West, showing us the rich connotation and beautiful timbre of these two Chinese and Western instruments, which show us the beautiful scenery of the vast Irish plains in a secret whisper.
*Program List Author: Fang Kexin, Department of Musicology, Shanghai Conservatory of Music
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