Crystal Chamber Music: Han Quartet, Feb 26
Chamber Music in the Crystal Room
Since the beginning, M has had chamber music in the Crystal Room. We adore chamber music – and the room, with the setting sun twinkling on the crystal curtains and the view of the river, seems made for it. In 2009, M began a partnership with the Atelier of Chamber Music at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and these gifted musicians now perform on the last Sunday of every month in the Crystal Room – Crystal Chamber Music.
Intimate chamber music in an intimate setting
Why do we love chamber music so much? Jensen Lam, director of the Atelier of Chamber Music, explains: “Chamber music is an intimate conversation among four, with the vocabulary of musical intonation and rhetoric accentuation – each tiny movement almost instantaneously comprehended and responded to. It’s constant mental and physical communication – integrate the ideas of four disparate musicians into a unified entity, provoking, soothing, hinting, conversing – and then receiving a response of the same level of intensity and integrity from one’s fellow musicians. It’s a remarkable experience.”
Sunday, February 26, 4pm
RMB 75, includes a drink, RMB 20, students
The Programme:
J.S. Bach 15 Trios for Two violins and Viola based on "Three-part Inventions"
Mendelssohn: String Quartet Op. 13 in A minor
1. Adagio - Allegro vivace
2. Adagio non lento
3. Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto - Allegro di molto
4. Presto - Adagio non lento
The Performers:
Han Quartet
Violin: Zheng Weimin, Wu Shuting
Viola: Liu Nian
Cello: Wang Dandi
Chamber Music Concerts every last Sunday of the month, 4pm, in Shanghai and Beijing.
Next Beijing concert: Sunday, February 19, 4pm
Next Shanghai concert: Sunday, February 26, 4pm

