Nürnberger Symphoniker
Mozart / Xinghai / Schumann
Everything in flow
The »Yellow River« – the Huang He in the east of China – is separated from the Rhine in tonight’s programme by the space of a concert interval. To mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Germany, Chinese pianist Haiou Zhang, who now lives in Germany, has put together a programme together with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra that couldn’t be more symbolic.
Schumann’s »Rhenish« Symphony, which he wrote shortly after he moved from Dresden to Düsseldorf, celebrates the great German river with infectious Romantic verve, full of joie de vivre and flowing melodies. In contrast to the Schumann the piano concerto »The Yellow River«, based on the cantata of the same name by the Chinese composer Xian Xinghai, stands for Chinese independence, and was written in 1968/69 as a collective composition in the spirit of positive socialism. The Mozart piano concerto forms a connecting link between the two worlds, for Mozart embodies the direct, cross-border power of music more strongly than almost any other composer.
Performers
Nürnberger Symphoniker orchestra
Haiou Zhang piano
conductor Renchang Fu
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester A-Dur KV 414
Xian Xinghai
Klavierkonzert »Gelber Fluss«
– Interval –
Robert Schumann
Sinfonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur op. 97 »Rheinische«