On the evening of June 10th, Liao Changyong and Hartmut Hall's "Central European Art Song Concert" was held at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall in Hamburg, Germany, which was a great success. SMM, the world's largest maritime exhibition to be held on September 3-6, 2024, will be held from September 3 to 6, 2024, and SMM's International Ship Offshore Network, which has participated in the world's largest shipbuilding and maritime exhibition for more than 10 consecutive years since 2006, will also participate in the exhibition and visit again.
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Officially opened in January 2017, the Elbphilharmonie stands 110 meters above Hamburg's famous historic marina warehouse and houses three concert halls. In 2024, the Elbphilharmonie welcomes its first Chinese singer, Liao Changyong.
This concert is a follow-up to the performance at the Shangyin Opera House on May 25, 2024, realizing the Shanghai-Hamburg "Music Tale of Two Cities". Following the school's motto of "importing world music on the one hand, and organizing Chinese music on the other, with the expectation of tending to Datong, and cultivating the consciousness and art of national beauty and harmony", the concert has carefully conceived a set of repertoire including German-Austrian art songs, Chinese art songs and Italian songs, so as to realize humanistic dialogue in different time and space, different regions and different language backgrounds.
At the concert, Liao Changyong sang 23 art songs by Chinese composers including Huang Zi, Qing Zhu, Chen Tianhe, Li Yinghai, Lu Zaiyi, and 10 composers, including Tosti and Mahler. It is worth mentioning that the concert is one of the composer's masterpieces, and the piano version presented this time is also the original appearance of Mahler's Song of the Young Traveler in 1885. The score for the Chinese art songs section is all based on "Three Wishes of the Rose: 16 Chinese Art Songs", edited by Professor Liao Changyong and published by Breitkopf & Härtel.
On the evening of June 10th, the Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal was packed to the brim with applause. After listening to the concert, the local Chinese and overseas Chinese said: "The performance is so exciting, and the Chinese and German friends around me are very shocked and full of praise!" Professor Lampson, Honorary Director of the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theater and renowned composer, said: "I was very impressed by the outstanding concert of Dean Liao Changyong. I've rarely heard a concert as good as today. Every song is intoxicating. He is a great master of the arts, unique. ”
The concert is like a heart-wrenching musical feast, a wonderful encounter between Chinese and German cultures at the highest artistic level. The cooperation between the two masters is evocative and admirable. Liao Changyong's soulful and poetic singing voice tells the depth and charm of art songs; Hartmut's collaborative art is the icing on the cake for the show. On this night, singing and singing, only they are different, and they are suitable for each other. Mahler's songs glowed with mesmerizing light at the concert and became the finishing touch of the evening. Liao Changyong's pronunciation is as clear as water, each syllable is clearly recognizable, and the expressiveness is rich and varied. From the passionate high-pitched beginning and end to the tender and tactful whispering, they were all vividly displayed and amazed the audience. In this concert of Central European art songs, every note is endowed with a soul, as if it is magical, and the audience will always remember the beauty and emotion.
Professor Hartmut Hall, a world-renowned vocal collaborative piano artist and former director of the Karlsruhe Conservatory in Germany, said that since 2018, he has been fortunate to cooperate with Professor Liao Changyong to experience the profound charm of Chinese art songs in language, art, history and culture. It is a great pride to be able to contribute to the exchange and dialogue between Chinese and European art songs together with Professor Liao Changyong and the team of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music led by him. 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 joys and sorrows of mankind told in the beautiful language of China, which is the great role and significance of music as a bridge between human culture and spirituality.
In 2017, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music established the China Vocal Art Research Center, with Professor Liao Changyong as the academic leader, to implement the integrated talent training model of "teaching, innovation, performance and research", from the Chinese Art Song Centennial Project to the Chinese Art Song International Vocal Music Competition held for three times, and then to sing Chinese voices in Switzerland, Vienna, Germany, Finland and other places, forming a unique system and model of creation and research-communication. In 2023, Liao Changyong and Hartmut Hall held the "Chinese Art Song Concert" at the Savonlinna Music Festival in Finland, and won the "Silver Pigeon Award" at the International Propaganda Office of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Information Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government in 2023.
Liao Changyong and Hartmut Hall held the concert in the top concert halls in Shanghai and Hamburg, which is one of a series of classic projects that Shangyin has been building around the "Centennial of Chinese Art Song" in recent years, and is also an important result of people-to-people exchanges and cooperation between Shanghai and Hamburg as sister cities. With the help of the nearly 100-year historical accumulation and leading position of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in the field of vocal music, it has carried out international promotion, talent training, teacher training and discipline construction, bringing the classics of Chinese art songs over the past 100 years to the international stage for extensive exchanges, so that the world can appreciate the infinite charm of the beautiful text and rhythm of the combination of Chinese and music. This is not only conducive to enhancing Shanghai's international reputation, but also conducive to promoting the dissemination of China's excellent traditional culture, expanding the scope of people-to-people exchanges, deepening pragmatic cooperation, effectively promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, and making practical results in improving the country's cultural soft power and Chinese cultural influence.
The concert was attended by Cong Wu, Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Hamburg, Jan Philipp Sprick, Director of the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theater, and Elmar Lampson, Honorary President of the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theater.