“Dialogue Between the East and the West”

Name: “Dialogue Between the East and the West”
Start: 2019-03-09T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2019-03-09T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Macau

9th March 2019

Conductor: Liu Sha

Cello: Nie Jiapeng

Liuqin: Wei Qing

Pipa: Zhao Cong

Nie Jiapeng, popular young cellist in recent years, has been specially invited to conduct a dialogue between the East and the West with musical instruments as the media. Cello, a Western musical instrument, is used to perform Genghis Khan Capriccio, a piece of Chinese-themed music by the most influential Asian composer Dr. Tang Jianping, unfolding a domestically and internationally famous story of a nomadic hero and creating a melody with differing yet compatible Chinese and Western elements. With his adept liuqin skills and musical sensibility, Wei Qing, principal liuqin musician of the Macao Chinese Orchestra, is going to make use of the beautiful and sharp sound of liuqin to perform The Bronze Drum Dance, a song comprising elements of ethnic minorities in Southwest China by Professor Zhang Zhao, the most prominent Chinese composer in recent years. The finale is Eternal Blessing and Auspiciousness, a pipa concerto commissioned by the Jilin Provincial Publicity Department from Zhao Cong, emerging artist and multitalented, principal pipa musician of the China National Traditional Orchestra, who has repeatedly represented top-notch Chinese artists to showcase the beauty of Chinese music to the leaders of different countries, showcasing to music fans an agglomeration of Northeast China’s history, geography and humanities.

Programme Highlights

Repertoire	Solo	Composition / Arrangement
Chinese Orchestral Music Jingling Bells of the Hungry Horse	-	Guangdong music rearranged by Ye Xiaogang
Cello Concerto Genghis Khan Capriccio (Macao Premiere) First Movement Mother’s Pasture Second Movement Mongolian Wrestling Hero Third Movement Sustenance Fourth Movement Battlefield Fifth Movement Longing Sixth Movement Auspicious Pasture	Cello: Nie Jiapeng	Comp.: Tang Jianping
Liuqin Concerto The Bronze Drum Dance	Liuqin: Wei Qing	Comp.: Zhang Zhao
Pipa Concerto Eternal Blessing and Auspiciousness (Macao Premiere) First Movement Blessing Ritual Second Movement Heavenly Lake Third Movement Eternality	Pipa: Zhao Cong	Comp.: Zhao Cong Orch.: Yin Tianhu