Review of the Concert with the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn on March 17, 2007 in Uster, Switzerland
Warming up the souls with the sounds from the Far East
To conclude the concert season of the KGU (Concert Community Uster), the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and the Erhu Artist Ma Xiaohui presented an accomplished musical evening in the music hall of the city (Stadthofsaal).
Once again, with its concert of last Saturday, the KGU has fully succeeded in combining the unknown with the known. Well-known works of Janacek and Dvorak formed the pillars of a program that featured, as its centerpiece, the encounter with Chinese music. Thereby, Ma Xiaohui, the soloist of the concert with her extraordinary virtuosity as well as charme who has been performing all over the world, understands herself as an ambassador of this unknown part embedded in the known.
A new world of sounds is opening in a miraculous fashion. It seems fair to say that barely anyone in the audience, before the concert, could have formed a clear idea about the sound of a Chinese violin, the so-called erhu. Mere descriptions can tell only little about the expressive power of an instrument that, with only two strings and a relatively small box of resonance, gives the impression of tonal modesty without big influence.
All the bigger is the surprise when the magician of sounds Ma Xiaohui, entirely in sync with her instrument and revealing the adaptable nature of the erhu, immerses the audience in a new musical world. While exotic, yet very close and fascinating is her play so that one could hear a needle falling down to the floor in the concert hall.
(About Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn)
(About the conductor Ruben Gazarian)
March 19, 2007
Zuercher Oberlaender and Anzeiger von Uster
Warming up the souls with the sounds from the Far East
To conclude the concert season of the KGU (Concert Community Uster), the Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and the Erhu Artist Ma Xiaohui presented an accomplished musical evening in the music hall of the city (Stadthofsaal).
Once again, with its concert of last Saturday, the KGU has fully succeeded in combining the unknown with the known. Well-known works of Janacek and Dvorak formed the pillars of a program that featured, as its centerpiece, the encounter with Chinese music. Thereby, Ma Xiaohui, the soloist of the concert with her extraordinary virtuosity as well as charme who has been performing all over the world, understands herself as an ambassador of this unknown part embedded in the known.
A new world of sounds is opening in a miraculous fashion. It seems fair to say that barely anyone in the audience, before the concert, could have formed a clear idea about the sound of a Chinese violin, the so-called erhu. Mere descriptions can tell only little about the expressive power of an instrument that, with only two strings and a relatively small box of resonance, gives the impression of tonal modesty without big influence.
All the bigger is the surprise when the magician of sounds Ma Xiaohui, entirely in sync with her instrument and revealing the adaptable nature of the erhu, immerses the audience in a new musical world. While exotic, yet very close and fascinating is her play so that one could hear a needle falling down to the floor in the concert hall.
(About Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn)
(About the conductor Ruben Gazarian)
March 19, 2007
Zuercher Oberlaender and Anzeiger von Uster
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