The Concert I would like to talk about is what I heard in Singapore. It was a cello concerto performed by Wang Jian and accompanied by Singapore Symphony Orchestra on March 29, 2013.
The reason why I choose this concert is because the cellist gave me a very impressive memorize so that I could still recall almost everything from the concert by his playing. Another reason is that there is barely to see some Chinese cellist to play with great orchestra, but Wang Jian has done it extremely well.
Wang Jian played the cello concerto in A minor composed by Schumann. This is very beautiful western music in romantic period. Schumann was very standard classical composer. However, dislike other composers in that period; Schumann composed a concerto with its …show more content…
The cello entered with a sombre but flowing theme which exactly describe Schumann's music style and romantic music style. As Schumann's character, his music is enthusiasm and rich and colorful. It was reflected by cello plays some perky chords from the woodwind before the opening idea re-emerges. Although the idea is repeat, the style is already became to much more exciting. The amazing change is the music seems continue with this exciting melody to the brilliant climax but it is not. Cello suddenly forces the mood and speed down and embarks on a long, lyrical section. And the amazing change has not finish yet. Every time the cello gradually becomes more exciting and it seems to be about to reach a climax, however, every time the cello pull the feeling back to smooth and build the melody again until once the cello play the solo almost like the climax but Schumann use a deductive cadence make the amazing change reappear. The slow movement is coming after the opening idea re-emerges. If the opening movement sounds like a lovely song, then the slow movement is more like a thoughtful conversation between cello and orchestra. It expressed that one side of gentle character of Schumann when the mellow cello's
The reason why I choose this concert is because the cellist gave me a very impressive memorize so that I could still recall almost everything from the concert by his playing. Another reason is that there is barely to see some Chinese cellist to play with great orchestra, but Wang Jian has done it extremely well.
Wang Jian played the cello concerto in A minor composed by Schumann. This is very beautiful western music in romantic period. Schumann was very standard classical composer. However, dislike other composers in that period; Schumann composed a concerto with its …show more content…
The cello entered with a sombre but flowing theme which exactly describe Schumann's music style and romantic music style. As Schumann's character, his music is enthusiasm and rich and colorful. It was reflected by cello plays some perky chords from the woodwind before the opening idea re-emerges. Although the idea is repeat, the style is already became to much more exciting. The amazing change is the music seems continue with this exciting melody to the brilliant climax but it is not. Cello suddenly forces the mood and speed down and embarks on a long, lyrical section. And the amazing change has not finish yet. Every time the cello gradually becomes more exciting and it seems to be about to reach a climax, however, every time the cello pull the feeling back to smooth and build the melody again until once the cello play the solo almost like the climax but Schumann use a deductive cadence make the amazing change reappear. The slow movement is coming after the opening idea re-emerges. If the opening movement sounds like a lovely song, then the slow movement is more like a thoughtful conversation between cello and orchestra. It expressed that one side of gentle character of Schumann when the mellow cello's