Portrait Concert
the Budge-Palais
Hamburg, Germany🇩🇪
29.05.2024
his portrait concert with full of his own compositions took place in
the Budge-Palais, Hamburg, Germany.
with musicians from many different countries, such as Germany,
France, Spain, Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Poland, South Korea, and
China.
XING YU -Portrait Concert (excerpts)
the Budge-Palais,
Hamburg, Germany (2024)
“Listening to the Wind”
“Grassschrift Nr. 2”
“Dialogue”
“Monologue”
“The Painted Skin No. 2”
Concert
Kraków Philharmonic Hall
Kraków, Poland🇵🇱
his music composition "The Painted Skin No. 2" for soprano, bass/baritone and large
chamber ensemble was premiered in 2021 in Krakow Philharmonic
(Filharmonia Krakowska) in Poland.
The Painted Skin -Pu Songling
“The Painted Skin” is a short story by the Chinese writer Pu Songling collected in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in 1740. The story revolves around a Chinese scholar, Wang, who becomes infatuated with a demon disguised as a beautiful young maiden. They develop a romantic relationship which goes awry after Wang discovers her true identity. Thereafter, a Taoist priest's skills are put to the task of exorcising the demon; a fight between good and evil ensues.
Performers
Conductor: Nadim Husni, Flute: Deák Juli, Clarinet: Kinga Patyk, Bass Clarinet: Dawid Sula, Trumpet: Nazar Mykytiuk, Bass Trombone: Michał Sinkowski, Soprano: Julia Anna Malik, Bass: Stanisław Duda
Percussion: 1. Maciej Hałoń 2. Igor Sikorski 3. Cezary Łagan, Guzheng: Wenyao Lin, Violin I: Natalia Orszak, Violin II: Anna Śliwczyńska, Viola: Barbara Papierz, Cello: Andrii Vorontsov.
Main theme
How foolish men are, to see nothing but beauty in what is clearly evil! And how benighted to dismiss as absurd what is clearly well-intended! It is folly such as this that obliges the lady Chen to steel herself to eat another man's phlegm, when her husband has fallen prey to lust. Heaven's Way has its inexorable justice, but some mortals remain foolish and never see the light!
— Pu's postscript
Filharmonia Krakowska (Krakow Philharmonic)
XING YU - "The Painted Skin II (2021)" for soprano, bass/baritone and large chamber ensemble
I. Intorduction
II. the Provocation of Demon
III. the Death of Pei Rong
IV. Retrospection
V. Confession