The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated by Chinese on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month (corresponding to late September to early October) with a full moon at night. Eating mooncakes and carrying lanterns are characteristic activities of this festival, which originally celebrated harvests.
According to a popular myth surrounding this festival, an archer named Hou Yi was rewarded with an elixir of immortality for shooting down nine of the ten suns which scorched the earth. He gave the elixir to his wife Chang-E, but she was robbed by an evil apprentice, and she consumed the elixir to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. Chang-E thus flew into the sky and became the goddess of the moon.
This piano solo piece derives its melody from motifs in «Full Moon on the Fifteenth» (十五的月亮), a well-known Chinese song related to this festival. The figurations in «Mid-Autumn Festival» are reminiscent of traditional Chinese plucked string instruments like the Guzheng, Yangqin and Pipa. Drawing inspiration from Debussy and Ravel, this piece sometimes evokes impressions of the graceful Chang-E soaring to the moon, and sometimes the heroic Hou Yi longing for his love.
钢琴独奏曲《中秋节》取材于《十五的月亮》的旋律动机,模仿古筝、扬琴和琵琶的音型和演奏技法,并以印象派的和声刻画出柔美的嫦娥和英勇的后羿。
Composer: WANG Chenwei | 作曲: 王辰威
Piano: Pualina LIM Mei En | 钢琴: 林美恩
Malay title: Perayaan Kuih Bulan
Tamil title: நடு இலையுதிர் கால திருவிழா
This piece is part of the suite «Festivals of Singapore», commissioned by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for the Singapore National Piano and Violin Competition 2019. This set of four ethnic-styled pieces was composed in celebration of Singapore’s bicentennial and represents the multiracial society of Singapore.
《新加坡的节日》应新加坡交响乐团委约,为2019年新加坡全国钢琴与小提琴比赛创作。此组曲适逢新加坡开埠两百周年,以四首富有民族风格的乐曲体现新加坡的多元社会。
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