Silver Clouds Chasing The Moon - Jianzhong Wang

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my channel! This video is of my live performance of Jianzhong Wang's Silver Clouds Chasing The Moon piece at my senior recital this past April! Silver Clouds Chasing the Moon is another one of Jianzhong Wang’s beautiful piano solos, written in the year 1973. It is technically a transcription of a Chinese instrumental piece written by Ren Guang in 1935. It has identical beginning and ending sections, which almost act like bookends to the rest of the piece, and can feel a little separated from the piece itself. I like to think of these sections like the narrator of a story, telling you what is going to happen in the beginning of a movie and then wrapping up the happily ever after at the end. The music in between these two sections is full of life, and takes the same little theme and almost turns it into variations; there is a lot going on, but the main little theme is always in there somewhere, although sometimes it can be quite hidden. This piece is one of the more popular of Wang's works, and is another beautiful representation of Chinese folk music!

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