"As an outstanding singer in China, Liao Changyong can be said to be the first person to sing Chinese art songs to the world. He sings so beautifully!"
Reporter and senior media person Du Enhu learned from Germany this morning: On the evening of June 10, a China-Europe Art Song Concert featuring famous Chinese singers Liao Changyong and Hartmut Hall was held grandly at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall in Hamburg, Germany. It is reported that the performance was a huge success. German audiences gave rave reviews to the art songs performed by Liao Changyong.
The show was planned for a year.
It is understood that the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall in Hamburg, Germany, was officially opened in January 2017. It stands on top of Hamburg’s famous historical building dock warehouse. It is 110 meters high and contains three concert halls. It is a world-renowned performance venue. It is also a world-famous cultural and artistic landmark.
Liao Changyong German performance poster
In June 2024, the Elb Philharmonic Concert Hall welcomed the first Chinese singer Liao Changyong. It caused a sensation locally. At the concert, Liao Changyong sang 23 art songs by 10 composers including Huang Zi, Qing Zhu, Chen Tianhe, Li Yinghai, Lu Zaiyi, as well as 10 composers including Tosti and Mahler with full passion. Liao Changyong's first-class "golden voice" represents Chinese singers and sings art songs to the extreme. At the scene, when Liao Changyong finished singing each song, the audience applauded warmly. Except the German audience applauded. Some Chinese and overseas Chinese were even more excited when they saw it.
It is worth mentioning that the Mahler art song suite "The Young Traveler's Song" performed in this concert is one of the composer's masterpieces. The piano version presented this time was also Mahler's "Young Traveler's Song" completed in 1885. original appearance. The music scores of the Chinese art songs are all from "Three Wishes of a Rose: 16 Chinese Art Songs" edited by Professor Liao Changyong and published by Germany's Big Bear Music Publishing House (breitkopf & härtel). This concert is a follow-up to the performance at the Shangyin Opera House on May 25, 2024, realizing the Shanghai-Hamburg "Tales of Two Cities of Music". Following Shangyin’s school purpose of “on the one hand, importing world music, on the other hand, engaged in organizing Chinese music, with a view to tending towards great harmony, and to cultivate the national spirit of beauty and harmony and its art”, the concert carefully conceived a set of German and Austrian art songs, The repertoire of Chinese art songs and Italian songs realizes humanistic dialogue in different time and space, different regions and different language backgrounds. It is understood that on the night of June 10th, the Elb Philharmonic Concert Hall Kleiner Saal was full of seats, and there was endless applause. After listening to the concert, local Chinese and overseas Chinese said: "The performance was so wonderful. The Chinese and German friends around me were very shocked and full of praise!" Professor Lampson, the honorary dean of the Hamburg Academy of Music and Drama and a famous composer, said: " I was deeply impressed by Dean Liao Changyong's outstanding concert. I have rarely heard such a wonderful concert as today. He is a great master of art and is intoxicating. "
Liao Changyong's live singing was full of passion, and his beautiful singing moved the German audience.
Liao Changyong's golden voice moved the German audience.
The concert was like a soul-shaking music feast, and a wonderful encounter between Chinese and German cultures at the highest artistic level. The collaboration between the two masters makes people remember and admire it for a long time. Liao Changyong's soulful and poetic singing voice conveys the depth and charm of art songs; while Hartmut's collaborative art is the icing on the cake for this performance. On this night, the voices sang and sang, but they were different and complemented each other. Mahler's songs exuded a charming light at this concert and became the highlight of the evening. Liao Changyong's pronunciation is as clear as water, each syllable is clearly distinguishable, and his expression is rich and diverse. From the passionate high-pitched ups and downs to the tender and melodious crooning, they were all displayed vividly and amazed the audience. In this Sino-European art song concert, every note was given a soul, which seemed to be magical and intoxicating. The audience present will always remember the beauty and touching feeling.
Professor Hartmut Hall, a world-renowned vocal and piano artist and former dean of the Karlsruhe Academy of Music in Germany, said that since 2018, he has been honored to cooperate with Professor Liao Changyong to experience the role of Chinese art songs in language, art and history and culture. profound charm. It is an extremely proud undertaking to be able to work with Professor Liao Changyong and the team at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to contribute to the exchange and dialogue of Chinese art songs and Chinese and European art songs. He said that through the international promotion of Chinese music and songs in recent years, European audiences have been deeply shocked and resonated with the past and future of Chinese music and art, and the common sorrows and joys of mankind told in the beautiful language of China. This is the city of music. The great role and significance of the bridge between human culture and spirit.
The audience was packed
Take a photo with the German artist
The German audience watched the performance attentively
In recent years, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music has always been committed to the collation, research and promotion of China’s excellent traditional culture. In 2017, the China Vocal Art Research Center was established, with Professor Liao Changyong as the academic The team of leaders has implemented the integrated talent training model of "teaching, creation, performance and research", from the Centenary Project of Chinese Art Song to the three-year International Vocal Competition of Chinese Art Song, and then to other places such as Switzerland, Vienna, Germany, and Finland. Sing the voice of China and form a unique innovation-research-communication system and model. In 2023, Liao Changyong and Hartmut Hall held the "Chinese Art Song Concert" at the Savonlinna Music Festival in Finland, and won the 2023 "Silver Dove Award" from the External Propaganda Office of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Information Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. .
Liao Changyong joined hands with Hartmut Hall to hold a concert in the top concert halls in Shanghai and Hamburg. It is one of a series of classic projects that the Shanghai Conservatory of Music has created around the "Century of Chinese Art Songs" in recent years. It is also a concert in Shanghai and Hamburg. Hamburg is an important cultural exchange and cooperation achievement as a sister city. Leveraging Shanghai Conservatory of Music’s nearly century-old history and leading position in the field of vocal music, we carry out international promotion, talent training, teacher training and discipline construction, bringing the creation classics of Chinese art songs over the past century to the international stage for extensive exchanges, so that the world can appreciate them. Come to the infinite charm of beautiful prose that combines Chinese language and music. This will not only help enhance Shanghai’s international reputation, but also help promote the spread of China’s excellent traditional culture, expand the scope of people-to-people and cultural exchanges, deepen practical cooperation, effectively promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, and improve the country’s cultural soft power and China’s To achieve effective results in terms of cultural influence.
Cong Wu, Consul General of China in Hamburg, Jan Philipp Sprick, Dean of the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theater, Elmar Lampson, Honorary Dean of the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theater, and others attended the event concert.
On the morning of June 14, reporter and senior media person Du Enhu interviewed Liao Changyong by phone, who had just returned to Shanghai from Germany. Speaking of the success of this performance, Liao Changyong was very modest. He said: "I just try my best and use all my passion to sing art songs well! Sing the highest level of art songs in China. This performance is to practice that civilizations are colorful through exchanges and civilizations are enriched through mutual learning." "Exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations are an important driving force for the progress of human civilization and world peace and development." This is an in-depth and successful cultural exchange with the outside world. I believe that there will be many more high-level musical and cultural exchange performances in the future. "
