Cellists dominated the week's concerts, with Chen offering an all-Beethoven lineup and Vogler playing a work he commissioned. Read more at straitstimes.com.
After the piano and violin, the cello is likely the most played of all Western classical instruments here.
Chen produced a lovely tone, always mindful of singing lines. Shi’s more fussy piano parts could have easily overwhelmed him with sheer notes alone, but she was sensitive throughout. Completely different was the Three Continents Cello Concerto, receiving its belated Asian premiere by German cellist Jan Vogler and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra led by rising Chinese conductor Yue Bao. Comprising three varied movements by three composers – American Nico Muhly, German Sven Helbig and Chinese Zhou Long – this half-hour work was symbolic of the universality of music.
Nothing, however, would prepare one for the inebriated flailings of Zhou’s Tipsy Poet, inspired by Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu’s writings. Violent cello pizzicatos simulated the ancient guqin, merely part of getting drunk on alcohol fumes with Chinese characteristics.
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