The Chinese music "Dunhuang: Ode to Mercy" performed at the Shanghai Grand Theater and the 2022 Shanghai New Year's Concert at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall will use a selection of Chinese and Western songs and new interpretations of traditional works to play the sound of the city on the occasion of the New Year's Eve. 

Dunhuang Bounce Pipa, Fengshou Konghou and Dunhuang Xiqin, three musical instruments that "walked" out of the frescoes, paved an audible Silk Road with musical notes at the Shanghai Grand Theater last night. The Chinese music "Dunhuang Ode to Mercy" was commissioned by the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra to compose the international music master Tan Dun, and it took two years to "recreate" it. Tang Dynasty court music.

The Dunhuang Xiqin played by Lu Lu, an erhu player of the orchestra, can be regarded as the ancestor of the erhu. The first-generation Dunhuang Xiqin chosen this time is not stable enough in rhythm and intonation, which tests the player's control and stability, but whenever I hear the voice that contains thousands of years of culture, it gives Lu Lu a strong feeling The sense of substitution, hoping to show the authentic Dunhuang music to the audience.

The pipa was originally played vertically, but during the rebound process, the pipa player Li Shengnan couldn't see the "pin" part of the pipa's left hand. Based on the one-to-one restoration of the phoenix head Konghou in Dunhuang frescoes, the phoenix head Konghou in the concert has a row of strings added, which is more in line with and convenient for modern performance. Liu Xuanyi, a Konghou player of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, said: "The restored phoenix-headed Konghou is matched with the flying dance. When I pluck the strings, I feel like the flying goddess who plays the Konghou."

When the traditional Chinese national musical instruments are played together, the ancient music of Dunhuang from a thousand years ago seems to really "live", revealing the prosperity and beauty of the dusty millennium, and reappearing the splendor and splendor of the Silk Road. Through the wonderful resonance of folk music and thousand-year-old murals, it shows the philosophical thoughts, humanistic values and moral norms of Dunhuang culture on the ancient Silk Road, reveals the cultural spirit and cultural mind of the Chinese nation, and activates the vitality of Dunhuang culture.