Crystal Chamber Music: Macaria String Quartet

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 April 28, 4pm

RMB 75, includes a drink; students, RMB 20

 

Programme

 

Haydn String Quartet In G Major, Op.77 No.1, 'Lobkowitz Quartet No.1'

海顿G大调弦乐四重奏，作品77"洛布科维茨四重奏"第一首

I Allegro moderato  适中的快板
II Adagio  柔版
III Menuetto;Presto  小步舞曲；急板
IV Finale;Presto  终曲；急板

Felix Mendelssohn String quartet in E Minor Op.44 No.2

门德尔松e小调弦乐四重奏，作品44第二首

I Allegro Assai Appassionato 激动的快板
II Scherzo (Allegro Di Molto)  诙谐曲
III Andante - Attaca 行板
IV Presto Agitato 激情的急板

 

Macaria String Quartet

Violins: ZHANG Runyin , SUN Minxian

Viola: ZHENG Chenxi

Cello: PAN Qimeng

 

Next Chamber Music Concert: MBQ Quartet, Sunday May 26, 4pm.