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