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| Photo Yongxin Chen |
Another wonderful event last night as SCGS hosted the classical guitarist Xuefei Yang at the Turner Sims. It was a terrific concert with some incredible demonstrations of Xuefei's unique guitar virtuosity. Paganini would have had to admit, I think, that she had done on the guitar (if not OUTdone) what he did with
Caprice No. 24 on the violin. I liked the beautiful traditional Chinese piece that she opened the second half with and her introduction as she described the fisherman sailing his boat towards the horizon was as poetic as the music that followed. Her performance of
Milonga del Angel by Piazzola was fantastic; she played three Schubert lieder transcribed for guitar that were ravishing and closed with a stunning
Homage pour la tombeau de Debussy by De Falla. I'm just mentioning a few things that are standing out for me, there was much more and in between there were her engaging and interesting comments. She has a very good sense of humour. I really enjoyed myself.
