Sunday, October 05, 2008

Butterfly Lovers Concerto (梁祝-小提琴协奏曲)

The story of the butterfly lovers is well-known by many. It is just like the Chinese version of Romeo and Juliet. I never knew that this concerto is played by a symphony orchestra until I saw these videos. I have always thought that this piece is played by a Chinese Orchestra with a violinist leading.

This piece of music is very nice. It may be a little boring to those who don't really understand this piece of music. Anyway, I think that there is room for improvement for the musicians in terms of their expressions. For the third video, there are some double note played by the leading violinist. It's a little different from what I have been listening to. I still prefer this part to be played with single note.

As I can't find any other videoes that have this 26-minute piece, take note that some of the ending of the video are repeated at the starting of the next video.

The story of the butterfly lovers is the love story between Liang ShanBo (梁山伯)and Zhu YingTai (祝英台). Thus this concerto is know as LiangZhu (梁祝)in Chinese. Enjoy the music!















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