A cello that can interpret the architectural and philosophical beauty of Bach's musical score to the fans is the "A cappella suite"; a cello and an orchestra that can express Edward Elgar's emotional world like the water in the ancient well, that is, the Cello Concerto in E minor.
The French film "Let the Sorrow End at sunrise" tells the story of a man who can pour out his love on the cello: Mr. Columbus was a classical cellist who lived in the second half of the seventeenth century. Columbus believed that music not only has melodies that can be heard by the living, but also with the sound of silence that can be heard by those who know and love. After the death of his wife, Columbus simply lived in seclusion in the countryside, playing the voice of the soul to his deceased wife day by day on the cello. Seeing that the teacher never looked at the score when playing the cello, nor did he record the beautiful melody that had just run on the strings, Columbus's student asked: Why? Mr. Columbus replied: "The score written on paper is nothing, but more important is the deeper things." ”
What is something deeper? After watching the movie, Mr. Columbus's reference is very clearly presented in the picturesque scenery of the French fragrant countryside, in Columbus's unpretentious piano sound, and in Columbus's deep affection for his daughter and students--that is, under the inspiration of the heart, very attentive and fiery on the strings of the soul.
Therefore, there will be a British cellist Dupree's version of Elga's "Cello Concerto in E minor" that fans can not put down every time they listen to it and will be snotty; therefore, Casals' version of Bach's "A cappella suite" will be regarded as a guideline by cellists around the world.
They used the cello to bring endless musical love to the fans. They also let the fans place an endless musical space on the cello. The concerts performed by many cellos are the musical halls created by the performers and fans for the cello, "waving a hand for me, like listening to the pines".
The first time I went to a multi-cello concert was the Vienna Philharmonic Six Cello Concert held at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center Concert Hall on May 24, 2015. Although it is more than 7 years ago, I cannot forget the wonderful repertoire of the world's top cellists, namely Bach's Tokata and Fugue in D minor, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, Beethoven's Alice, Gershwin/Rimsky-Korsakov's Summer Time/Wild Bee Flying, Piazola's Forgetting, and so on. It is not difficult to see that there are pieces of music written by composers specifically for the piano, such as Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 and Beethoven's "To Alice", but through the adaptation of cellists, we listen to six cellos play "To Alice", without the slightest sense of violation.
The Berliner Philharmoniker Twelve Cello Concert was the scene of the most participating cellists I have ever heard. In order to reflect the many possibilities of the cello, the cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic interspersed the repertoire with a lot of contemporary music that we are familiar with, such as the theme music of the movie "Titanic", the jazz "Caravan" of the Duke of Ellington, etc. That concert has been more than 3 years old, and now that I think about it, there are still classical music that follows the rules, they are Shostakovich's "Second Round", Foley's "Pavan", Piazzola's "Fugue and Mystery"...
Piazola's tribute to Bach's work "Fugue and Mystery" was also included in the "Sound of the Gold Medal - Eight Cellos Concert" held at the Shanghai Concert Hall on October 2, chen Weiping, Xie Tian, Wu Minzhe, Lu Bingxia, Xie Liujia, Chen Tian, Shen Yue, You Dunbang and other eight gold-awarded principal cellists from major orchestras across the country, before "Fugue and Mystery" played Barber's "String Softboard".
In addition to his violin concerto, String Flex is my favorite of the works of American composer Samuel Barber. Created between 1936 and 1938, this string quartet uses an unpretentious musical language to tell the sadness that is increasingly difficult to discharge when quiet in about 8 minutes. The String Quartet, a collaboration between two violins, a viola and a cello, was performed on the stage of the Shanghai Concert Hall on October 2, and Chen Weiping played Barber's string quartet "String Soft Plate" with eight cellos, and the adaptation was inevitable. "The following song we only need to listen carefully can be", Chen Weiping's guided tour, so that the Shanghai Concert Hall that was full of seats that day when the "String Soft Board" sounded, the atmosphere was particularly solemn, that is to say, even if it was a child who was not as old as school age, even if it was an old man who entered the scene with a fluttering shopping bag, as long as the musician was so prompted, we could immerse ourselves in the sadness of the melody convergence, the branches of the vines, the silk climbing vines, the endless melodic lines, under the interpretation of the eight cellos, slightly trembling, Dancing in the Breeze – To say sad, Barber's String Flex is a work that cannot be ignored in the classical music repertoire, so so many movies will choose it to set off the atmosphere, such as "Field Platoon", "Wild Reed", "North", etc., all of which are gradually strengthened when the characters in the film are too sad to help themselves.
Also needing to be adapted, the repertoire of the second half of the concert, Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", the test of Chen Weiping's eight gold medal chiefs, is obviously more than Barber's "String Softboard". The audible test is that they added color where "winter" began. How is this brilliant performance of Wu Minzhe's full heart, which is not able to beaked by outsiders like me, and is waiting for the comments of professional critics. So, there are inaudible tests? Yes. As Chen Weiping said, to play Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" for violins with eight cellos, no matter how it is adapted, the cellists are required to run faster than when playing the cello repertoire, so when preparing for this concert, the eight of them went to the gym to enhance their physical fitness and practiced cello playing skills in the piano room.
However, due to the excessive indulgence of music fans, their efforts have turned into a moon in the water.
We know that during the performance of classical music, the live audience is not allowed to applaud between movements, so several theaters in Shanghai that arrange classical music concerts will fly the subtitle "Please do not applaud between movements" on the display screen during the performance. We strictly adhere to this rule, so we can't understand the damage that applause between movements can do to the performance of classical music, but I feel this hurt when the eight cellists are playing "Four Seasons". Everyone applauded not only between "spring", "summer", "autumn" and "winter", but also between the three movements of each "season", this kind of wanton wantonness to divide the coherence of the work was encouraged by Chen Weiping's words. He said, "Don't hold back, just applaud if you want", so in addition to clapping, some of the audience members on the scene touched their mobile phones to play games, and some held up their mobile phones to record for a long time.
Except for two female cellists who wore dresses and long skirts as is customary in classical concerts, the six men were dressed in casual shirts, which was understandable. During the epidemic, through the video we see the Serbian cellist Hauser even playing the world's famous pieces barefoot in the square, on the seashore, on the gondola, which makes more and more people who have no feeling for the cello fall in love with the cello - when classical music is becoming more and more niche, musicians want to attract more people, especially young people, into the arms of classical music through various means, which is a good thing to appreciate, the question is, where is the boundary between pandering and guiding?
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