To celebrate the first installment of the Sino-French Cultural Forum in 2016, Winland invited the French violinist Leanard Schreiher, pianist Asia Ijiri, woodwind player Pierre Génisson as wel as pianist Claudia Yang to perform the following unique selection of famous Chinese and foreign compositions at the occasion of its welcome gala:

The Sonata for Piano and Violin No.3 in C Minor, composed by Edvard Grieg, who gave apt expression to a magical, Norwegian inspired world, in which he conveys features of medieval Norse tales and historical legends; Méditation, taken from the opera Thaïs by composer Jules Massenet, who was hailed as a genius representative of 19^th century French Romanticist music;

Zigeunerweisen by the timeless Spanish violinist and composer Pablo de Sarasate, a composition which is the splendid result of the interweaving of soulstirring pathos and intricate violin skills;

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, FP84, a late work by the French composer and pianist Francis Poulenc, which commemorates the old friends with whom the composer formed the collective Les Six;

The Dream of the Red Chamber piano concerto, based on the famed Chinese composer Wang Liping’s 1987 musical score for the eponymous TV-series, which afforded said famous literary classic with a novel artistic expression.

Edvard Grieg
Sonata In C Minor For Violin And Piano, Op. 45

Jules  Massenet 
Meditation De Thais 

Pablo De Sarasate  
Gypsy Airs 
Leonard Schreiber, Violin
Aisa Ijiri, Piano

Francis Poulenc
Sonata For Clarinet And Piano, Fp 184
Pierre Genisson, Clarinet
Qingzhi Chen, Piano