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- Butterfly Lovers Concerto (梁祝小提琴协奏曲) | Ji-Won Song, violin; Beilin Han, piano
Butterfly Lovers Concerto (梁祝小提琴协奏曲) | Ji-Won Song, violin; Beilin Han, piano
00:22 Introduction and demonstrations by Ji-Won Song
06:25 I. Adagio cantabile
10:11 II. Allegro
12:48 III. Adagio assai doloroso
14:54 IV. Pesante -- Piu mosso -- Duramente
17:47 V. Lagrimoso
21:11 VI. Presto resoluto
22:58 VII. Adagio cantabile
Violinist Ji-Won Song and pianist Beilin Han play the complete Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, written in 1959 by Chinese composers He Zhanhao (何占豪) and Chen Gang (陈钢), while they were students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
From the 2016 Heifetz Institute "Festival of Concerts," taking place at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Va. Details: http://www.heifetzinstitute.org.
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Video Transcript
Good afternoon.
My name is Jiwon and today I'll be playing with Bae Lin
Butterfly Lovers violin concerto and
I think many of you might not have heard about this concerto and it's a very famous concerto in China
And this Butterfly Lovers is a very famous story in China.
And this concerto actually follows the story plot
and it has specific emotion and scene.
And I would like to maybe explain some of the passages
so that you can follow along with us.
First, in the beginning, it's a very famous theme of this piece.
It goes something like...
And in the beginning it's very sunny, it's a new day, everything's happy.
And the main character is one girl and one guy.
And back in the day in China, girls couldn't go to school.
So this girl was disguised as a boy.
So... and she is in love with this boy.
But the boy doesn't know that she's a girl.
He thinks that she's a guy.
So that's the setting of the story and she's anxious to tell the boy that she's
actually a girl and that she likes him and you'll hear some of these anxious
passages like something like this and she at the end does not tell him and
then you'll hear a playful section this is where they play hide-and-seek at
school and it's just very fun and carefree. And then comes a very kind of
semi-sad section and here the girl is trying to tell the boy that she's a girl
very like not directly. So for example they would be walking and then come to a
lake and they would see a reflection of themselves and the girl would say, oh I
I see one girl and one boy.
And the boy would say,
what do you mean there are two boys?
And she would say, oh, they're cute geese,
and I think one goose is boy and one goose is a girl.
And he says, no, those are two boys, how do you know?
And so obviously the boy's a little bit dumb.
And so she still cannot get her point across.
And then, and then, and then there's a little rebellious section after this,
where the father tells her to come back home from school, and he already kind of
found a man for her to marry. So he arranged a guy, and now she's really
upset, and then you'll hear a very, like, rebellious...
Something like this.
And she's rebelling.
And then what happens is that the boy and the girl meet,
and at this point the girl is already engaged,
and that he finds out that actually she was a girl.
And it's a very, very,
probably the saddest moment in this piece.
And it goes something like this.
and then within a few measures the guy dies from a disease.
And so now she's very upset and she goes to his grave
and then she's just crying her heart out and she's just really upset, frustrated, agonizing and stuff
and it sounds like...
