Chao News Client Reporter Chen Yuhao
On the evening of January 20, the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra’s first concert of the year to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Bruckner’s birth was held at the Hangzhou Grand Theater Opera House.
For the classical music industry, 2024 is destined to be a great year to perform and commemorate Bruckner. The Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra also took advantage of the opportunity to launch the "Bruckner Project" belonging to Hangzhou Philharmonic. Within one year, it has cooperated with many well-known conductors at home and abroad Artists and performers collaborated to complete the interpretation of Bruckner's nine symphonies, and the first person to take over the baton was the internationally renowned Chinese conductor Lu Jia.
In the first half of the concert, Lu Jia joined hands with Chen Yibai, a rising cello star who has attracted much attention in today's music world, to present Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major to the audience. In Hang Ai's "Bruckner Project", each concert is presented with one of Bruckner's symphonies paired with classics by composers from different periods, allowing the history of Western classical music to be perceived through the "unchanged" Bruckner The long-term context and the "changes" of the times.
Haydn and Bruckner are both Austrian composers. The former was a composer in the classical period and the founder of the Vienna classical music school. He was dubbed the "Father of the Symphony" by later generations. Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major is a masterpiece that has been buried for two hundred years. It has the elegant music style common to the Viennese classical music school. The performance skills are quite difficult and it is a great test of the performer's skills.
This is Chen Yibai's first collaboration with the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra. As a winner of many top international competitions, he not only won the place in the Tchaikovsky International Competition, but also won the runner-up in the cello group of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium, and was even selected as the violinist. Master Daniel Hopp praised Chen Yibai's performance as "a great genius", and Belgium's "Libery" even commented on Chen Yibai's performance as "like light coming, taking us to another world".
That night, this energetic young performer began to stretch his limbs, emotions and personal understanding of Haydn on his century-old Guadagnini cello with Lu Jia's arms, allowing the Hangzhou audience to feel This person is as his name suggests, a "100%" post-00s performer.
The second half of the concert was the highlight of the night - Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 in D minor. In Bruckner's late blooming life, "Busan" was not considered a successful work in his career resume at that time. It even had two failed premieres and multiple major or minor revisions. But time is always relatively fair to art. Several years later, Bruckner's once "unrecognized" symphony still left a strong mark in the history of music. This time the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra performed it that night It is the composer's final version (the third revised version in 1889).
Conductor Lu Jia is a senior "Bruckner fan". In his eyes, Bruckner is the "destination of the soul". A year and a half ago, Lu Jia collaborated with Hang Ai to perform Bruckner's Ninth Symphony, and last year, Lu Jia conducted the National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra to complete the recording of "Bu San". In the second collaboration on Bu's works, Lu Jia and Hang Ai are already close friends, and their tacit understanding and cooperation have been polished to just the right level. It just so happens that Lu Jia has carefully thought about "Bu San", so this journey to the soul's destination The challenging journey is bound to be exciting.
On the stage that night, the band expanded from a small band in the first half to a large orchestra of nearly ninety people, fully and magnificently demonstrating the volume and thickness of the sound carried by Bruckner's symphony in the second half, especially the "Busan" In the last movement, the grand length is erupted and eliminated in the repeated and rapidly accumulated music blocks, repeatedly impacting the eardrums of the audience. The polka theme presented by the strings and the hymn-like theme presented by the wind instruments are superimposed to create a unique The sound effects allow music fans to glimpse the composer's lifelong hard work and hesitation, indifference and helplessness, simplicity and immortality in Bruckner's bold artistic conception.
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