YANG, Tsung-Hsienヤン・ツンシェン（楊聰賢）（1952-）

CONCERTINO PIANISSIMO for Piano and Orchestra （1999）

ピアノ小協奏曲（鋼琴小協奏曲　鋼琴與管絃樂團）

Instrumentation: 1(=picc).1.1+bcl.1-2.1.1.0-hp-pf-perc(2):vib/xyl/BD/tom-t/gong/sus.cym/tam-t/templeblk/SD/tgl/timp-str, solo pf

Premiere: 8 December 1999. National Concert Hall (Taiwan), Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Taipei, cond. by Chun-Fung Lee, Hsing-Chwen Giselle Hsin (pf)

Description: The nightly silence is the domain for contemplation in which life is no longer about the questions and answers of the daytime, it simply becomes a song that should be sung. My Concertino Pianissimo, which consists of two movements, has its emotional and expressive roots in the following two poems, which by Rabindranath Tagore.

I know that at the dim end of some day the sun will bid me its last farewell.
Shepherds will play their pipes beneath the banyan trees, and cattle graze on the slope by the river, while my days will pass into the dark.
This is my prayer that I may know before I leave why the earth called me to her arms.
Why her night’s silence spoke to me of stars, and her daylight kissed my thoughts into flower.
Before I go may I linger over my last strophe, completing its music, may the lamp be lit to see your face and the wreath woven to crown you.
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The pain was great when the strings were being tuned, my Lord!
Begin your music, and let me forget the pain; let me feel in beauty what you and in your mind though those pitiless days.

The waning night lingers at my door, let her take her leave in songs.
Pour your heart into my life-strings, my Lord, in tunes that descend from your stars.