May 26, 2024 22:18 Source: China News Network
The third efficiency of the 2024 Beijing Great Wall Concert was held on the Badaling Great Wall on the evening of the twenty fifth. Photo courtesy of the editor
The third efficiency of the 2024 Beijing Great Wall Concert was held on the Badaling Great Wall on the evening of the twenty fifth. Photo courtesy of the editor
The third efficiency of the 2024 Beijing Great Wall Concert was held on the Badaling Great Wall on the evening of the twenty fifth. Photo courtesy of the editor
China News Service, Beijing, May 26 (Reporter Xu Jing) The third efficiency of the 2024 Beijing Great Wall Concert was held on the Badaling Great Wall on the evening of the twenty fifth. The theme of this live performance is “Classical Meets Jazz”. The Moscow Jazz Orchestra and the New Russia National Symphony Orchestra carried out along with world-renowned saxophonist and jazz grasp Igor Butman.
Igor Bultman is a world-renowned saxophonist, bandleader and producer. In 1999, he based the world-renowned Igor Butman Orchestra (now the Moscow Jazz Orchestra), a quartet and a quintet. Since its inception, the orchestra has carried out with many world-class jazz stars. In this Great Wall Concert, he not solely introduced an incredible efficiency from the 18-member orchestra, but in addition collaborated with the New Russian State Symphony Orchestra to provide the viewers an audio-visual feast.
At the start of the live performance, the Igor Bultman Quintet carried out the basic Chinese jazz songs “Dragon Generations” and “China Under the Lights”, specifically tailored by Bultman himself for the Great Wall live performance in Beijing and devoted to the Chinese viewers.
While the viewers was immersed within the romantic confluence of Chinese classical music and jazz, the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra performed “Wandering” from Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at a Show”. The music is mild and soothing, and it creates a picture that makes folks really feel like they’re in a colourful gallery. The New Russian State Symphony Orchestra was based in 1990 and is an everyday visitor at music festivals in Russia and overseas.
“Voice Training” carried out by the Igor Butman Quintet and the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra collectively has stunning and delightful music, like a religious music, that makes folks drunk.
The band Jazz from Moscow then took the viewers to a different degree. The candy and romantic music “Little Girl”, with its distinctive improvisation and jazz rhythm, is intoxicating. The opening music “Walking” from “The Picture Show” is reinterpreted in a singular jazz fashion, exhibiting a very totally different musical enchantment: when it’s carried out by a symphony orchestra, the construction and coloration of the work stand out particularly whereas when it’s carried out by a jazz orchestra When it sings , there may be extra freedom for improvisation and rhythmic energy.
The efficiency within the second half was equally thrilling Chataturyan’s “Spartacus” Adagio performed by the New Russian National Symphony Orchestra, exhibiting the fantastic and deep melody of Bultman and the jazz orchestra introduced Rachmaninoff’s “Prelude in C minor”; of the saxophone provides this basic work new life.
The Novorossian State Symphony Orchestra additionally offered “Waltz No. 2” and “Tahiti Foxtrot”. Beautiful music and delightful beats introduced the viewers to a musical feast. The live performance ended efficiently when the Bultmann Quintet carried out “Descendants of the Dragon” once more with the complete viewers.
On the evening of May 26, the 2024 Beijing Great Wall Concert will maintain its ultimate efficiency. The live performance is collectively organized by China International Cultural Communication Center and Beijing Yonglian Guangye Culture Co., Ltd. As an essential occasion to have a good time the seventy fifth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic relations between China and Russia and the opening 12 months of the China-Russia Cultural Year, this live performance goals to deepen understanding and friendship between the 2 nations by means of cultural alternate and integration. and artwork. (extra)
【Editor: Liu Wenxi】