Three years ago, the famous composer Wang Liping was invited to write A Dream of Red Mansions. Who sang a dozen songs full of melancholy and infinite emotion? He thought of Chen Li, the physical chemist of Changchun No.1 Automobile Factory, who was found in the vast sea of songs. 1 may, 9831day, he was eating jiaozi at a friend's house, and a video of an employee performance was playing on TV. A mellow soprano suddenly passed by, leaving a mark on his mind ... The performance tape was transferred, and Wang Liping, with a musician's keen hearing, "dug up" the singer he had never met before. A successful cooperation created an opportunity for Chen Li's lead singer The Red Chamber. From then on, Wang Liping wrote with tears, and Li Chen sang with tears. The poems written by Cao Xueqin turned into beautiful songs and danced on the screen-
Why aren't you hurt when you're all red? Chen Li loves to sing "Burying Flowers". In the adagio of "360 days a year, it is difficult for the wind and sword to press each other", she sings softly but not floating, and her heart is full of sorrow, and Dai Yu's bitterness under the fence is all in it. The 28-sentence singing of the whole song is full of twists and turns, which constantly pushes the mood to a climax: "I don't know when the flowers fall and people die"! This sentence is Chen Li's original intention: the vibrato is full and symmetrical, and the voice is as sharp as an element; The word "death" that lasts for several beats is the generation of love and the splash of tears!
Parting the flesh and blood-Tanchun's sad song. The melody at the beginning has a very low range, and it is impossible to sing brilliantly by sound alone. Familiar novels at ordinary times make Chen Li have endless associations: the waves are boundless and a boat is sailing. Tan Chun, who is "only conscious and ambitious", is forced to marry far away, and the sorrow of life and death is better than death. Chen Li was depressed, and the word "Go" with "Three Thousand Storms" at the end jumped greatly. Chen Li didn't have to trill to let go of his voice. The difficulty of singing has increased, and at the same time, it has received the effect of "crying and heartbreaking".
The episode of A Dream of Red Mansions is sincere and delicate, and each section is carefully designed, with special attention to drawling, vibrato, soft bending and hard bending. In order to express different feelings, most lyrics are curved, sometimes one word is curved, overlapping and circuitous. Chen Li used the word "vertical" in "Three Poems of Dipa" to turn several difficult bends into setbacks, and sang the sadness of choking and sobbing and the sadness of being swept away again. In Sighing Xiangling, she used chorus on the basis of national singing, which increased the expressive force of the song.
Pay attention to skills without showing traces; Starting from the content, not expressing the actors themselves. This kind of singing has made Li Chen's characteristics, that is, the singing characteristics of the TV series A Dream of Red Mansions-classical beauty: elegant, graceful, dignified and simple; Tragic beauty: lingering, sad, sad and true.
In early May, the crew of A Dream of Red Mansions went to Hong Kong to attend the premiere, and Chen Li's theme song "Curse My Eyebrows" was broadcast live on Asian TV. At the end of the song, phone calls followed, praising her for bringing fresh air to the music scene in Hong Kong. The artistic director of ATV gladly wrote an inscription, which gave her the reputation of "Out of the Valley Oriole".
Some people say that Li Chen has experienced ups and downs since ancient times: during the Cultural Revolution, her artistic talent was not brought into play; When she sang "The Red Chamber" for the first time, her husband had cancer and left her and her children ... Li Chen didn't get into trouble, but woven her personal experience into the song to make the song "The Red Chamber" more emotional. Now more and more people are familiar with Li Chen's singing skills, and they are scrambling to buy the album tapes of A Dream of Red Mansions that she sang. Many art groups in the capital are going to recruit her as a professional actress.
Li Chen's songs are very moving and her acting skills are good. In the 22nd episode of A Dream of Red Mansions broadcast this Saturday, she will walk from behind the scenes to the screen and meet the audience in the kitchen as the daughter-in-law of the Liu family.
Chen Li's version of "Red Bean Qu" is covered in blood and tears, which is unbearable to listen to. The song incorporates elements of folk tunes, which is very suitable for Baoyu's wandering streets in his later period, and it sounds heartbreaking. Chinese mainland is a famous contemporary female singer. 1977 Enter the Oriental Song and Dance Troupe; Studied under Guo Shuzhen, a vocal educator from the Central Conservatory of Music; 1978 went to Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and other countries to study Southeast Asian folk music; 1984 was awarded honorary citizen of Harbin by Harbin municipal government; 1987 was rated as one of the top ten most popular singers in China in the selection jointly sponsored by CCTV and Film Association. 1999 165438+ October song "Haozhouzhuang" participated in the first national tourism song competition organized by the National Tourism Administration, and won the silver award and the first prize of individual singing.
If Li Chen's Red Bean Qu has a folk style, then Zheng Xulan's Red Bean Qu can be understood as an affair in a boudoir. This red bean song completely subverts the original version in arrangement, without using the knocking of bells as a prelude, but adopting the style of symphonic poetry. Then there is the clank of the guzheng, which seems to depict the sentimental girl's mood. The style of the whole song is not as miserable as the original song, but shrouded in a touch of sadness, which is another interpretation. Lyrical coloratura soprano, professor of China Conservatory of Music, tutor of master students, expert of government special allowance of the State Council, representative of the 11th and 12th National People's Congress, director of China Musicians Association, representative of the 11th China Women's Congress, and member of all-china youth federation.
Through years of systematic vocal music training and studying and exploring a large number of vocal music works, Wu Bixia has mastered two different vocal music singing methods of singing China's vocal music works and foreign vocal music works simultaneously. She is the first singer in China who won the highest international award by combining China folk singing with western Bel Canto singing.
Regardless of arrangement or singing, Wu Bixia's Red Bean Qu is the closest to the original. This version is commendable in the expression of emotion.