Cmaj7 | Wenchen Qin - Violin Concerto, "The Border of Mountains" (2012) @Cmaj7 | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 29 minutes ago.
Composer: Wenchen Qin (秦文琛 Qín Wénchēn) (October 29, 1966 –)
Violinist: Mengla Huang
Orchestra: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien conducted by Gottfried Rabl
00:00 I
07:50 II - [Folk Song "Couples are happy together, but you are not here"] (really beautiful movement!)
14:40 III - Dancing in Mountain Shadow
The violin concerto The Border of the Mountains was completed in 2012, and was commissioned by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music for its 85th anniversary. We begin with a long antiphonal passage, the solo violin pitted against the orchestral strings playing high in their registers: Qin’s exaggerated depiction of songs sung between Chinese people in the mountains, almost like hoarse shouting as the lines bounce off against each other and occasionally intertwine. The malleable sonic nature of string instruments is constantly exploited, sliding up and down between pitches and pressing semitones and even quartertones closely together within the ensemble writing. As the movement progresses, the forceful rhythms of speech-like patterns from the whole orchestra are contrasted with passages in which the pulse seems suspended, the strings and soloist holding the line as if in space. The second movement makes use of a short segment of Shanxi folk song, the writing more lyrical and almost religious in character. The song itself, "Couples are happy together, but you are not here", is the story of a woman alone among married friends, since her husband has had to travel far away to find work. Qin exploits an extraordinary array of colours in the solo violin: simple open intervals, bowed and plucked lines together, sudden jumps and leaps through the register, and the sometimes glassy, sometimes whistling tones of harmonics. The orchestra provides support to this line, chattering below, or briefly seizing control of the music in short outbursts before leaving the soloist alone altogether. Finally we reach the third movement, "Dancing in Mountain Shadow", which has a strong rhythmic impetus and more prominent role for percussion (including the percussive effect of col legno from the strings). After the highly lyrical character of much of the earlier two movements, here the music is driven forwards with little rhythmic cells, full of energy. The ensemble builds to a long-held, ecstatic chord over which the soloist recalls the singing lines of the work’s opening; eventually, this fades away until just the high winds are left, calling like birds into the silence. -Booklet notes by Wenchen Qin
Score available from Sikorski: sikorski.de/3275/en/0/a/0/q/search_results/1041137_the_border_of_mountains_concerto_for_violin_and.html
Chinese title: 山际线
How I make my videos: github.com/CMajSeven/WorkflowTemplate
Program I develop for this channel: github.com/edwardx999/ScoreProcessor
Composer: Wenchen Qin (秦文琛 Qín Wénchēn) (October 29, 1966 –)
Violinist: Mengla Huang
Orchestra: Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien conducted by Gottfried Rabl
00:00 I
07:50 II - [Folk Song "Couples are happy together, but you are not here"] (really beautiful movement!)
14:40 III - Dancing in Mountain Shadow
The violin concerto The Border of the Mountains was completed in 2012, and was commissioned by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music for its 85th anniversary. We begin with a long antiphonal passage, the solo violin pitted against the orchestral strings playing high in their registers: Qin’s exaggerated depiction of songs sung between Chinese people in the mountains, almost like hoarse shouting as the lines bounce off against each other and occasionally intertwine. The malleable sonic nature of string instruments is constantly exploited, sliding up and down between pitches and pressing semitones and even quartertones closely together within the ensemble writing. As the movement progresses, the forceful rhythms of speech-like patterns from the whole orchestra are contrasted with passages in which the pulse seems suspended, the strings and soloist holding the line as if in space. The second movement makes use of a short segment of Shanxi folk song, the writing more lyrical and almost religious in character. The song itself, "Couples are happy together, but you are not here", is the story of a woman alone among married friends, since her husband has had to travel far away to find work. Qin exploits an extraordinary array of colours in the solo violin: simple open intervals, bowed and plucked lines together, sudden jumps and leaps through the register, and the sometimes glassy, sometimes whistling tones of harmonics. The orchestra provides support to this line, chattering below, or briefly seizing control of the music in short outbursts before leaving the soloist alone altogether. Finally we reach the third movement, "Dancing in Mountain Shadow", which has a strong rhythmic impetus and more prominent role for percussion (including the percussive effect of col legno from the strings). After the highly lyrical character of much of the earlier two movements, here the music is driven forwards with little rhythmic cells, full of energy. The ensemble builds to a long-held, ecstatic chord over which the soloist recalls the singing lines of the work’s opening; eventually, this fades away until just the high winds are left, calling like birds into the silence. -Booklet notes by Wenchen Qin
Score available from Sikorski: sikorski.de/3275/en/0/a/0/q/search_results/1041137_the_border_of_mountains_concerto_for_violin_and.html
Chinese title: 山际线
How I make my videos: github.com/CMajSeven/WorkflowTemplate
Program I develop for this channel: github.com/edwardx999/ScoreProcessor
