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The concerto ends bittersweetly with a final melodic phrase from the solo violin, concluding mysteriously on a high D from the strings. In the legend, Liang's grave opens and Zhu throws herself into the chasm; the ending portraying the lovers' transformation into butterflies, never to be separated again.
China Girl was the sixth album by classical and pop musician Vanessa-Mae, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music).. China Girl contains only three tracks. The first is a recording of the Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Viktor Fedotov.
The story also inspired the production of Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto, or Liang Zhu Violin Concerto as known in Chinese, a work for violin and orchestra. It was composed by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang in 1958. The piece has been the most musically symbolic retelling of the legend; at 25 minutes and 40 seconds long, it has now become a ...
The Concerto has also achieved enormous international success. Chen is a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. [1] In his composition career, he composed and recomposed many classics in China, including Butterfly Lovers, Miaolin's Morning, and The Golden Steel Smelting Furnace. He also composed a virtuoso violin solo piece: Sunshine ...
Yu Lina (Chinese: 俞丽拿; pinyin: Yú Lìná; born 1940 in Ningbo, China) is an esteemed and influential Chinese violinist pedagogue in China.. In 1959, in Shanghai, she made her debut as violinist at the nationwide celebration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of China, premiering Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto and hence gained great success.
Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto; Philippe Gaubert. Violin Concerto in B-flat Major (1929) Harald Genzmer. Concerto for Violin (1959) Roberto Gerhard. Violin Concerto (1945, rev. 1950) Friedrich Gernsheim. Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 42; Violin Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 86; Alberto Ginastera. Violin Concerto (1963) Philip Glass
Sheng Zhongguo (Chinese: 盛中国; Wade–Giles: Sheng Chung-kuo; 1941 – 7 September 2018) was a Chinese violinist, best known for his rendition of the orchestra work Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto. He is widely considered one of China's greatest violinists, [1] known as "China's Menuhin".
Wu Yili (Chinese: 巫漪丽; 1931 – 20 April 2019), also known as Elaine Yi-Li Wu, [1] was a Chinese-Singaporean classical pianist. A member of the first generation of Chinese pianists, [2] she served as the first solo pianist of the China National Symphony Orchestra and arranged the piano accompaniment for the Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto.