In 2009, initiated by music director Yu Long, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra founded the "Shanghai New Year Concert." After 15 years of companionship, the Shanghai New Year Concert has become a unique scene in the increasingly popular year-end performance market.
On the evening of December 31, the "2024 Shanghai New Year Concert" arrived as scheduled. Daniel Harding, one of the most popular conductors in today's music scene, once again conducted the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, teaming up with the famous pianist Lang Lang and bamboo flute player Tang Junqiao to perform Rossini's "William Tell" Overture and Su Xiaozhu at the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall. A set of items including "Prosperity" for flute and symphony orchestra, Smetana's "Vltava" (selected from "My Motherland"), Grieg's "Piano Concerto in A minor" and Ravel's "Waltz" The combined repertoire presented a warm musical journey to the Shanghai audience. Tickets for the
concert were sold out within three minutes of opening. After tickets were re-opened later in response to fans' demand for additional seats, they sold out again in seconds, which shows that fans have high expectations for this concert. Conductor Daniel Harding, who was admired by two great masters, Simon Rattle and Abbado, when he was young. In addition to his commanding ability, he is also talked about for his status as a pilot. "I just flew a plane last week." . Now I am a pilot for one month and a conductor for another month." This is Harding's second hand-in-hand handover after the "2020 Shanghai New Year Concert".
The concert opened with the overture of "William Tell" by Italian composer Rossini, which is also the background music for the entrance of Italian athletes at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Subsequently, the bamboo flute and symphony orchestra's "Prosperity" played, and the "Bamboo Flute Goddess" Tang Junqiao strung together a beautiful picture of blooming flowers and thousands of lights with the melodious sound of the bamboo flute. This work is a movement in "G60 Light" created for the "Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor". It was created by young composer Su Xiao. The work uses local folk songs from Songjiang, Shanghai, and folk songs from the Zhejiang area "Tea Picking Tune" ", Jiangsu's Kunqu Opera "The Peony Pavilion" and Anhui's Huangmei Opera "The Couple Returns Home" and other folk songs and opera elements. Among them, the bamboo flute is like a high-speed train, leading the audience along the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor together with the symphony orchestra. Between the "Nine Cities". After a new work that fully displays the charm of the bamboo flute, "Vltava River", known as the "second national anthem" of the Czech Republic, sometimes "flows out" gently and sometimes rapidly. The composer Smetana performed it with extremely epic spirit. , depicting a universal national emotion.
In April this year, Lang Lang, Gina Qinse and Ming performed "Carnival of the Animals". On the 31st, Lang Lang once again joined hands to perform his masterpiece "Piano Concerto in A minor" by Norwegian composer Grieg. He has collaborated on this work with Simon Rattle, Thielemann and many other conductors, and now he knows him again Cooperation with old friends for many years has added charm. "Hardin and I have witnessed each other's growth. We have conducted many tours with the London Symphony Orchestra together. That experience was very unforgettable." Lang Lang said with emotion when recalling the musical relationship between the two.
The most frequently performed New Year's concerts are various waltzes. Ravel's "Waltz" is full of the ultimate romance of the Viennese court of the Strauss era. The audience welcomes the New Year in the bright music with rich rhythm changes.
Photo courtesy of Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Tian Wanting
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