导赏 如果用最简练的一个词语来概括本场音乐会的亮点的话，我想概括为“见证”。中国爱乐乐团将在这场音乐会中带领观众共同见证一段肖邦美妙的初恋和肖斯塔科维奇传奇的经历。
2020年恰逢肖邦诞辰210周年。大约在肖邦20岁的时候，他决定去巴黎，因为那里是欧洲音乐的中心，就连“琴魔”帕格尼尼若想要征服欧洲，首先都要征服巴黎。在肖邦离开祖国之前，写下了他的第一首钢琴协奏曲，因为出版的时间晚于其次年写成的另一首钢琴协奏曲，因此该协奏曲被编号为肖邦《第二钢琴协奏曲》。在写作这首协奏曲时，肖邦深深地暗恋着（华沙音乐学院）声乐系的一位女同学。他曾在一封书信中写道：“这半年来，我几乎每天晚上都梦见她，但是还是未能与她交谈过半句，我就是在思念她之中写下了协奏曲的慢板乐章。”虽然这位他曾暗恋的女神在他离开华沙的第二年就已成人妻，但承载着青年肖邦初恋的夜曲般的第二乐章永远记录了初恋那“难以形容的美”。
音乐会的另一首作品同样是听一次就会让人难忘的肖斯塔科维奇《第五交响曲》（简称“肖五”）。虽然更多人会喜欢肖邦，但是喜欢肖斯塔科维奇的人也非常非常多，人们亲切地称他“老肖”。每个上演《肖五》的夜晚都是一次“见证”。铁幕时代，肖五被评论为“这是一个苏联艺术家对于公正批判所做的创造性回答。”而肖斯塔科维奇在回忆录《见证》中曾说过：“我永远不会相信一个什么都不懂的人能感受第五交响曲。当然，他们明白的，他们知道周围发生了什么，他们就会理解第五交响曲。”
邓泰山是当今世界上最知名的钢琴大师之一，第一位在肖邦国际钢琴大赛上获得金奖的亚洲人，也是公认的肖邦权威演绎者，中国爱乐乐团的“新朋友”。他出生于越南，曾亲历战争的他是当今少有的目睹过战火硝烟的钢琴家，有着比同时代和平环境中学习成长的艺术家们更坎坷的成长经历。2020年是大师问鼎肖邦国际钢琴比赛后的第40年，他终于迎来了与中国爱乐乐团的首次合作——而且他还从来没有在中国演奏过肖邦的钢琴协奏曲。
毫无疑问，在肖邦诞辰210周年的生日前后，由一位职业生涯已达40年的肖邦权威与中国爱乐乐团共同演绎肖邦协奏曲，这本身就已成为本场音乐会的极大看点。此外，本场音乐会的指挥家邀请了英国青年指挥家乔纳森·布洛克斯汉姆，这位年轻的指挥家也同样是第一次站上中国的舞台。（李东洲 ，经纪人）
交响音乐会
Symphonic Concert
弗雷德里克·肖邦：F小调第二钢琴协奏曲，作品21
德米特里·肖斯塔科维奇：D小调第五交响曲，作品47
钢琴：邓泰山
指挥：乔纳森·布洛克斯汉姆
钢琴：邓泰山
“一位名副其实的音乐家。”——艾萨克·斯特恩
邓泰山，加拿大籍越南裔钢琴家，当今世界上最杰出的音乐家之一。1980年10月，邓泰山在华沙问鼎了第十届肖邦国际钢琴大赛的金奖，同时也成为了第一位在国际顶级音乐赛事上获此殊荣的亚洲钢琴家。从那之后，他被推到了音乐世界的前沿。
他自幼跟随母亲学习钢琴。1974年，被前去越南河内访问的俄罗斯钢琴家艾萨克·卡茨（Isaac Katz）发现，并在卡茨的支持下远赴莫斯科柴可夫斯基音乐学院深造。在那里跟随弗拉基米尔·纳坦森（Vladimir Natanson）和德米特里·巴什基罗夫（Dmitry Bashkirov）学琴。
在赢得了肖邦国际钢琴大赛金奖之后，他的演奏足迹迅速遍及世界40多个国家，先后到过著名的纽约林肯中心、伦敦巴比肯艺术中心、巴黎普莱耶音乐厅、慕尼黑巴伐利亚皇宫赫库力斯厅（Herkulessaal）、阿姆斯特丹皇家音乐厅，悉尼歌剧院和三得利音乐厅等。
与他合作过的众多世界级交响乐团包括：英国爱乐乐团、BBC爱乐乐团、伯明翰城市交响乐团，巴黎管弦乐团、圣彼得堡爱乐乐团、蒙特利尔交响乐团、捷克爱乐乐团、柏林国家歌剧院管弦乐团、德累斯顿爱乐乐团、奥斯陆爱乐乐团、华沙国家爱乐乐团、布拉格交响乐团、NHK交响乐团、新日本爱乐乐团、赫尔辛基爱乐乐团、悉尼交响乐团、匈牙利国家交响乐团、莫斯科爱乐乐团、俄罗斯国家交响乐团，以及莫斯科名家室内乐团、华沙瓦索维亚交响乐团、维也纳室内乐团、苏黎世室内乐团、皇家瑞典室内乐团、巴黎室内管弦乐团。此外，他合作过的知名指挥家又包括：内维尔·马里纳爵士、弗拉基米尔·阿什肯纳齐、平查斯·祖克曼、马里斯·杨松斯、帕沃·雅尔维、伊万·费舍尔、弗朗斯·布吕根、弗拉基米尔·斯皮瓦科夫、德米特里·基坦科、萨卡里·欧拉莫和约翰·尼尔森等。
在室内乐方面，他曾与柏林爱乐八重奏和斯美塔那弦乐四重奏合作。此外还与巴里·塔克威尔（澳大利亚圆号演奏家）、堤刚（日本大提琴演奏家）、平查斯·祖克曼、鲍里斯·贝尔京（前苏联小提琴家，珍妮·杨森的老师）、约瑟夫·苏克（捷克小提琴家，德沃夏克的曾外孙）、亚历山大·鲁丁（俄罗斯大提琴家）一起合作，与俄罗斯钢琴家安德烈·加夫里洛夫一起合作过双钢琴。
职业生涯里的重要演出还包括：由日本广播公司NHK同步转播的1995年新年音乐会上，邓泰山曾与马友友、小泽征尔、凯瑟琳·芭特尔和已故大提琴演奏家罗斯特罗波维奇同台演出；1999年1月，邓泰山作为唯一一位外籍独奏家受邀在纪念肖邦逝世150周年活动的开幕音乐会上与华沙国家歌剧院管弦乐团合作；2001年，在艾萨克·斯特恩生前最后一届日本宫崎音乐节期间，邓泰山与祖克曼合作了三场音乐会；2005年，邓泰山首次出任肖赛评委，并作为唯一一位特邀嘉宾在第15届肖邦国际钢琴大赛的开幕音乐会上演出；2010年3月1日，肖邦诞辰200周年当天，邓泰山受邀在华沙国家歌剧院的纪念肖邦诞辰音乐会上，与弗朗斯·布吕根执棒的十八世纪管弦乐团演奏了肖邦《f小调第二钢琴协奏曲》。
邓泰山在很多国际上的重大音乐赛事中担任评委工作，包括第15、16、17届华沙肖邦国际钢琴比赛（2005，2010，2015）、美国克利夫兰国际钢琴大赛、瑞士克拉拉·哈斯姬尔国际钢琴大赛，特拉维夫亚瑟·鲁宾斯坦国际钢琴大师赛、日本滨松国际钢琴比赛、日本仙台国际音乐比赛、蒙特卡洛钢琴大师赛、莫斯科斯维亚托斯拉夫·里赫特国际钢琴比赛、布拉格之春国际钢琴比赛，以及蒙特利尔国际钢琴比赛等。同时，邓泰山还常被邀请在世界各地上大师课。1999年10月，在柏林与钢琴家佩拉西亚和阿什肯纳齐一起担任大师班指导。自2001年起，他在加拿大蒙特利尔大学担任客座教授。2018年初，邓泰山同意担任美国最负盛名的音乐学院之一的欧柏林音乐学院的钢琴教授，并将于2018-2019学年入职。这是他30余年的教学生涯后，首次同意加入某一音乐学院的钢琴系。
2012-2013乐季，邓泰山以全套五首贝多芬的钢琴协奏曲为曲目在世界各地巡演，这次被称为“贝多芬马拉松”的巡演被认为是邓泰山自1980年赢得肖邦国际钢琴大赛以来最具重大意义的经历。
2012年，邓泰山参与日本NHK电视节目《明日》的拍摄，走访了福岛地区遭受过2011年大地震和海啸灾难的音乐学生，与大家一起分享了自己的学习经历，鼓励孩子们继续努力学习音乐，对未来要充满期待。该节目于2013年2月在NHK电视台播出。
邓泰山的演奏专辑，由德意志留声机公司DG、前苏联国有唱片公司Melodya、波兰国营唱片公司Polskie Nagrania（现华纳旗下厂牌）、日本CBS 索尼唱片公司、加拿大Analekta唱片公司、日本Victor JVC唱片公司，以及萧邦协会等录制发行。
由肖邦协会录制发行的专辑《肖邦钢琴协奏曲》，因销量超过万张而被波兰影音协会评为2013年“年度白金唱片奖”。该唱片中的两首钢琴协奏曲分别是2005年和2006年邓泰山与已故指挥家弗朗兹·布吕根和他的十八世纪管弦乐团在“肖邦和他的欧洲”音乐节期间音乐会的实况录音，当年使用的是1849年的埃拉德古董钢琴（Erard）和同时代的管弦乐器。
2017年，有两套精彩的录音得到了发行。第一张专辑是经日本Victor Kenwood唱片公司录制的舒伯特作品，这是一家从1995年就与邓泰山一直合作的唱片公司。第二张专辑灌制的是潘德列斯基的作品，其中包含一首《a小调钢琴协奏曲》和一些精选的独奏作品。这张专辑上的钢琴协奏曲是2015年8月29日在“肖邦和他的欧洲”音乐节上与阿什肯纳齐执棒的英国爱乐乐团音乐会的现场录音。该唱片被法国古典音乐资讯网站ResMusica评选为“月度最佳唱片”。
指挥：乔纳森·布洛克斯汉姆
Frédéric CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, Op. 21
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op. 47
Dang Thai Son, piano
Jonathan BLOXHAM, conductor
Dang Thai Son, piano
“A genuine musician” - Isaac Stern
An outstanding international musician of our time, Vietnamese - Canadian pianist Dang Thai Son was propelled to the forefront of the musical world in October 1980, when he was awarded the First Prize and Gold Medal at the Xth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. It was also the first time that a top international competition was won by an Asian pianist.
He began piano studies with his mother in Hanoi. Discovered by the Russian pianist Isaac Katz, who was on visit in Vietnam in 1974, he pursued his advanced training at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Russia with Vladimir Natanson and Dmitry Bashkirov.
Since winning the Chopin Competition, his international career has taken him to over forty countries, into such world renowned halls as the Lincoln Center (New York), Barbican Center (London), Salle Pleyel (Paris), Herculessaal (Munich), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Opera House (Sydney), and Suntory Hall (Tokyo).
He has played with numerous world-class orchestras such as The Philharmonia Orchestra , BBC Philharmonic , City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, St-Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal , Czech Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, Dresden Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Prague Symphony, NHK Symphony, New Japan Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Hungarian State Symphony, Moscow Philharmonic, Russian National Symphony, as well as Virtuosi of Moscow, Sinfonia Varsovia, Vienna Chamber, Zurich Chamber, Royal Swedish Chamber Orchestras, and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. Also, he has appeared under the direction of Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Ashkenazy , Pinchas Zukerman, Mariss Jansons, Pavvo Jarvi, Ivan Fisher, Frans Brüggen, Vladimir Spivakov, Dimitri Kitaenko, Sakari Oramo and John Nelson among others.
In the field of chamber music, he has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Octet, the Smetana String Quartet, Barry Tuckwell, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Pinchas Zukerman, Boris Belkin, Joseph Suk, Alexander Rudin, and he has played duo-piano with Andrei Gavrilov.
Other career highlights include a New Year's Day concert (1995) with Yo Yo Ma, Seiji Ozawa, Kathleen Battle, and the late Mstislav Rostropovich, in a major international event produced by the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation NHK; in January 1999, a Gala-concert opening the Chopin year, where he was the only foreign artist invited to appear as soloist with the Warsaw National Opera Theatre Orchestra; concerts in Isaac Stern's last festival in Miyazaki, Japan in 2001, which included three performances with Pinchas Zukerman; a special performance in 2005 as the only guest artist at the Opening Gala Concert of the XVth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, where he was also a member of the jury; and on Chopin's 200th Birthday, March 1st, 2010, he played at the Gala Concert the Concerto in f-minor with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under the direction of Frans Brüggen at the Warsaw National Opera Theatre.
Dang Thai Son is frequently invited to give master classes around the world - such as the special class in Berlin in October, 1999, where he taught alongside Murray Perahia and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Since 2001, he teaches as Guest Professor at the Universite de Montreal (Canada.) He has sat on the juries of prestigious competitions such as the Warsaw International Chopin Piano Competition (2005, 2010, 2015), Cleveland (USA), Clara Haskil (Switzerland), Artur Rubinstein (Tel-Aviv), Hamamatsu, Sendai (Japan), Piano Masters of Monte Carlo, Sviatoslav Richter (Moscow), Prague Spring International, Montreal International Piano Competition, among others.
During the 2012-2013 season, Dang Thai Son toured around the world with an ambitious program of all five Beethoven's piano concertos, the Beethoven Marathon. This colossal project was considered the most significant since his winning at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1980.
Dang Thai Son has recorded for Deutsche Grammophone, Melodya, Polskie Nagrania, CBS Sony, Analekta, Victor JVC, and the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.
Mr. Dang's album "Chopin's Concertos" on Fryderyk Chopin Institute label was awarded in 2013 a Platinum Disc by the Polish Association of Audio-Video Producers for sales of over 10,000 copies. This disc features recordings of the Chopin Piano Concertos on a 1849 Erard piano and period instruments under the baton of the late Frans Brüggen and his Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, documenting two memorable events in the festival ‘Chopin and his Europe’ in 2005 and 2006.
Two exciting recording projects were released in 2017. The first one is a Schubert recording with Victor Kenwood Japan, a company that Dang Thai Son has worked with since 1995. The second recording devotes to Paderewski's compositions which includes the Piano Concerto in a minor and a selection of Paderewski's solo works. The Piano Concerto on this CD was recorded live with the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Ashkenazy during the "Chopin and his Europe" Festival in Warsaw on August 29th, 2015. This recording was selected as "La clef du mois" (Disc of the Month) by ResMusica (Paris, France.)
Dang Thai Son is the featured artist in the television program “Tomorrow”, produced by NHK (Japan Broadcast Corporation) in which he visited music students that were the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in the Tohoku area in Fukushima (Japan). He shared with them his musical experiences but most importantly he encouraged them to continue their music education, to fight on, and to look forward to the future. The program was broadcast worldwide in February 2013.
Dang Thai Son has received the “Doctor Honoris Causa” from the Music Academy in Bydgoczsz, Poland.
Mr. Dang is the subject of the biography, “A pianist loved by Chopin - The Dang Thai Son Story”, published by Yamaha Music Media Corporation in 2003.
Mr. Dang is the winner of the Prix Opus (equivalent of a Grammy Award in Quebec, Canada) in the 2016 "Concert of the Year" category for his concert presented by the Fondation Arte Musica at the Musee de Beaux Arts' Bourgie Hall in Montreal, Canada.
After over 30 years of teaching, Dang Thai Son has agreed for the first time to join a piano faculty! He will be Professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music - one of the most prestigious music schools in the United States. His appointment will start with the 2018-2019 academic year.
Jonathan BLOXHAM, conductor
Jonathan Bloxham is already establishing himself as one of the most versatile musicians of his generation and was Assistant Conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from the 2016 to 2018. He is also Artistic Director of Northern Chords, a festival based in the North East of England that he founded in 2009.
Jonathan's recent and forthcoming conducting highlights include the closing concert of the CBSO’s Symphony Hall season in June 2017 and concerts with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Aurora, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the RTE Concert Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Mozart Players, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Sinfonia Cymru and in Beijing and Shanghai. He has been assistant conductor for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as for Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Opera North.
As a cellist Jonathan was winner of several prestigious awards such as the Guilhermina Suggia Gift and a Pierre Fournier Award Grant and regularly performed at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Kings Place and the Southbank Centre.
Jonathan started his musical training at the age of 8 with a local teacher at his primary school in Gateshead. He then studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Royal College of Music with Thomas Carroll and finally at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Louise Hopkins. Jonathan has taken further studies with Eberhart Feltz, Nicolas Pasquet Sian Edwards and Paavo Jarvi.