Saturday,
March 30,
2019,
8 pm
at Jordan Hall
Presenting
Daniel Hsu
徐翔
piano
Photo
Credit: Jeremy Enlow/The Cliburn
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~ Program ~
Johann Sebastian
Bach
Prelude and
Fugue in C-sharp major from Book I, BWV 848
Sergei Rachmaninov
Etudes-tableaux,
Op. 39, No. 5
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Dumka in C minor, Op. 59
Frédéric Chopin
Piano Sonata
No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
Grave – Doppio movimento
Scherzo
Marche funèbre: Lento
Finale: Presto
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~ Intermission ~
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Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etude
No. 8 in C minor, “Wilde Jagd”
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Promenade – The Gnome
Promenade – The Old Castle
Promenade – Tuileries: Children Quarrelling after Play
Bydlo (Oxen)
Promenade – Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells
Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle
Promenade – The Marketplace at Limoges
Catacombs: Roman Tombs
Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua (With the dead in a dead language)
The Hut on Hen’s Legs (Baba-Yaga)
The Great Gate of Kiev
“
…. His performance of Bach C-sharp Minor Prelude and Fugue
was beautiful and thoughtful. Rachmaninov’s Etude-Tableau in
E-flat Minor (Opus 39, No, 5) emerged in all its passionate
turbulence and led inexorably to its climax. Tchaikovsky’s
Dumka in C Minor (Opus 59) showed remarkable comprehension
of a piece that eludes most Western pianists..
Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” , was among the
best and most authentically Russian-sounding performances of
the piece I’ve ever heard. Not the least of its many
wonderful touches was the way Hsu treated the eerily
delicate harmonies that represent the voices of the dying
and the dead in “con mortuis in lingua mortua (“with the
dead in a dead language).” After listening to Mussorgsky’s
“PIctures” for 60 years. it is thanks to Hsu that I finally
understand where Prokofiev found the inspiration for the
music in Prince Andre’s death scene in his opera, “War and
Peace.”
Stephen Wigler of International Piano
Magazine (May/June 2019 issue)
“San Francisco native Daniel Hsu
delivered a powerful, thoughtful, and sensitive
program of piano works connected by strong imagery and an
enigmatic French-Russian dimension, as part of the
first-rate concerts sponsored by the Foundation for Chinese
Performing Arts. This deeply inquisitive artist’s inner
probing brought fresh meaning to great warhorses, reaching
well beyond his stunning mastery of technical difficulties.
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A single brief encore, Schumann’s Traumerei, played with
marvelous tenderness, left us
in a suitably dreamy state after a massive, magnificent, and
memorable performance. “
- Leon Golub, Boston Musical Intelligencer
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photos : Chung Cheng,
Chutze Chou and Xiaopei Xu |
Daniel Hsu 徐翔,
pianist
Characterized
by the Philadelphia Inquirer as a “poet…[with] an expressive edge
to his playing that charms, questions, and coaxes,” American pianist
Daniel Hsu captured the bronze medal and prizes for best performance
of both the commissioned work and chamber music at the 2017 Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition. Also a 2016 Gilmore Young Artist,
first prize winner of the 2015 CAG Victor Elmaleh Competition, and
bronze medalist of the 2015 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition,
he is increasingly recognized for his easy virtuosity and bold musicianship.
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Daniel Hsu began taking piano
lessons at age 6 with Larisa Kagan. He made his concerto debut with
the Fremont Symphony Orchestra at age 8, and his recital debut at
the Steinway Society of the Bay Area at age 9, before being accepted
into the Curtis Institute of Music at the age of 10, along with his
two older siblings. Since then, he has made his debuts with the Philadelphia
Orchestra (2016) and Carnegie Hall (2017) as part of the CAG Winners
Series at Weill Recital Hall. He has appeared in recitals at the Dame
Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts,
and Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, as well as in concerts
in Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, and New York.
With orchestra, Daniel has collaborated with the Tokyo, North Carolina,
Grand Rapids, New Haven, and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras, working
with conductors Leonard Slatkin, Nicholas McGegan, Cristian Măcelaru,
Ruth Reinhardt, and Marcelo Lehninger.
The 2018–2019 season takes him across the United States in recital
and concerto performances. Overseas, he performs with the National
Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, joins Curtis-on-Tour in Europe,
and makes appearances in China and Japan, where he has toured annually
since his Hamamatsu success.
Daniel’s chamber music performance with the Brentano String Quartet
earned him the Steven de Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance
of Chamber Music. The Dallas Morning News praised “his impassioned,
eloquently detailed Franck Quintet,” proclaiming it to be “a boldly
molded account, with a natural feeling for the rise and fall of intensity,
the give and take of rubato. Both he and the Brentano seemed to be
channeling the same life force.” He regularly tours the United States
with the Verona String Quartet and in duo piano with his brother,
Andrew, and appears frequently in chamber music festivals.
Decca Gold digitally launched Daniel’s first album featuring live
recordings from the Cliburn Competition of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at
an Exhibition and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, op. 110, as well as his
award-winning performance of Marc-André Hamelin’s Toccata on “L’homme
armé.” He has also been featured in interviews and performances for
WQXR, APM’s Performance Today, and Colorado Public Radio.
Now 21 years old, Daniel is currently the Richard A. Doran Fellow
at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he has studied with Gary Graffman,
Robert McDonald, and Eleanor Sokoloff.
He is a Marvel film buff and enjoys programming. He contributed to
the creation of Workflow, a popular productivity app that allows users
to automate tasks on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, which won the
coveted 2015 Apple Design Award and was acquired by Apple in March
2017.
ADDITIONAL
2017 CLIBURN AWARDS:
Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance of Chamber
Music
Beverley Taylor Smith Award for the Best Performance of a New Work
(Boston Orange 周菊子波士頓報導) 2017年范克萊本(Van
Cliburn)國際鋼琴大賽銅牌得主,鋼琴家徐翔(Daniel
Hsu),三月三十日應中華表演藝術基金會之邀,首次來到紐英倫音樂學院喬登廳(Jordan
Hall)舉辦鋼琴獨奏會,頻頻贏得觀眾熱情歡呼,起立鼓掌。
徐翔在喬登廳的這首演,彈奏了巴哈,拉赫瑪尼諾夫,柴可夫斯基,李斯特,蕭邦,和穆索爾斯基等人的作品。音樂會後,許多人在社交媒體上搶發照片和剪輯的視頻,都非常肯定他的演出。
波士頓音樂雜誌(Boston Musical Intelligencer)的音樂評論家Leon
Golub,也寫了一篇名為“
大師風度的徐翔,演出大師的音樂畫作作品”,他說“出生在舊金山的徐翔這場鋼琴獨奏會,既強而有力,又細膩敏銳,引人深思,依稀展現法國的神秘,俄羅斯的圖像。他像一個充滿好奇心的藝術家,內心深沉處的探索渴望所賦予樂音的偉大新意義,遠遠超出了他對技術難度的驚人掌控。今晚的演奏是中華表演藝術基金會所主辦一系列一流音樂會中的又一場令人讚嘆的演出“。
Leon Golub
還說,”一首簡短的舒曼Traumerei安可曲,溫柔奇妙,讓我們處於一個完全舒適的夢幻狀態。真是一場華麗,令人難忘的演出。“
當天的觀眾席中,有多位音樂名人,其中包括知名鋼琴家鄧泰山。
徐翔現年21歲,目前是柯蒂斯音樂學院學生。在音樂之外,他還喜歡寫電腦程式,他設計的Workflow在2015年贏得
Apple設計獎,在2017年3月被Apple收購。今年(2019)4月21日,他將應邀到台灣中山堂,和芬蘭廣播交響樂團音樂總監與指揮Hannu
Lintu,以及台北交響樂團,攜手演出柴可夫斯基第一號協奏曲。"
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Daniel Hsu gave a wonderful recital
at Jordan Hall last night. He started with the Bach
prelude and fugue in C sharp major from the Well Tempered
Clavier Book 1, BWV848. It couldn't have been more
perfect. It was beautifully played with excellent rhythm
and voicing, and all the chords and harmonic changes were
very clear.
The second piece was the well known Etude Tableau in E
flat minor, op. 39 no. 5. Daniel gave a powerful and
dramatic account of this. Daniel then played Tchaikovsky's
"Dumka" which describes a "Rustic Russian Scene" which
contains music for lively Russian folk dancing as well as
a very sad song-like melody which runs through the piece.
I thought Daniel gave a superb and emotional rendition of
this music.
Every time I hear Dumka (I have played it myself but not
in a concert), I thought it describes a person, maybe a
soldier, an entertainer or a clown rather than a "Rustic
Russian Scene". Perhaps this music describes the
personality of Tchaikovsky himself, especially in the
extremely sad and tragic episodes.
Daniel then gave an impressive, poetic and very musical
performance of Chopin's 2nd sonata. The fast rippling last
movement which describes wind blowing across a cemetery at
night was particularly well done.
In the second half Daniel played Wilde Jagd or "Wild Hunt"
which is one of Liszt's transcendental etudes. I have also
played this piece. It starts with a rather agitated (and
bangy?) introduction in C minor, which probably is
intended to describe the horses n hunting dogs and hunted
prey running and leaping about in a mad dash. You then
hear the sound of hunting horns and a then a really nice
romantic melody in E flat major, in my opinion the best
part of the piece. Daniel played this wonderfully and
produced an orchestral effect at the piano.
The last piece was Pictures at an Exhibition by
Mussorgsky. Every piece was well characterized and it was
a very entertaining and exciting performance.
Daniel received tremendous applause and a standing
ovation. He played Schumann's Traumerei from Scenes of
Childhood. It was spellbinding and reminiscent of Vladimir
Horowitz's performance. Horowitz too played this as an
encore.
Bravissimo and congratulations to Daniel Hsu for his
beautiful and memorable recital!
Robert
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Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
updated 2019 |
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