12.21
Saturday
19:30
Price
￥180 -￥380
Duration
90mins
About the Performance
Chopin’s Mazurkas are the composer’s most intimate musical diary—a parchment of the soul preserving life’s most vulnerable moments. Eschewing virtuosic flamboyance and monumental sonorities, these miniature gems unveil the trembling psyche of an exiled artist through whispered confessions.
Born of Polish folk rhythms yet gestated in Parisian exile, Chopin’s Mazurkas weave ancient polyphonic counterpoint with Italian bel canto lyricism, even harboring premonitions of jazz harmonies. To experience them is to savor a Cuban cigar’s slow-burning poetry or decode Hemingway-esque brevity that mirrors our existential solitude. True understanding demands shedding the noise of modernity, descending into the catacombs of memory where Chopin’s fragmented nostalgia becomes our own.
Artists
ZHAO Yangmingtian
Piano
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Program
Frédéric Chopin
Four Mazurkas, Op. 6
Five Mazurkas, Op. 7
Four Mazurkas, Op. 17
Four Mazurkas, Op. 24
Four Mazurkas, Op. 30
Four Mazurkas, Op. 33
Intermission
Four Mazurkas, Op. 41
Three Mazurkas, Op. 50
Three Mazurkas, Op. 56
Three Mazurkas, Op. 59
Three Mazurkas, Op. 63
Four Mazurkas, Op. 67
Four Mazurkas, Op. 68