Crystal Chamber Music

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 regular concerts 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.”

Our next concert:

Sunday, August 29, 4pm

Featuring classical Chinese & Western instruments

The Programme

Astor Piazzolla

Buenos Aires Hora Cero for Violin and Guitar

Issac Albaniz 

Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Piano

Wang Jian Min

Rhapsody of the Orient for Guzheng

Lou Shu Hua

Fisherman's Song in the Sunset, for Violin and Guzheng

The Performers

 "Ensemble Ad-hoc"  

Piano - Shi Wen
Violin - Wen De Jing

Guitar - Cheng Bin

GuZheng- Zhou Ji Lai

 

RMB 65, includes a drink; students, RMB 10
Crystal Room, 7th floor