The audience was captivated by the melodies in the soundtrack of the movie "Paradise Cinema" when People's Artist Bui Cong Duy accompanied Meritorious Artist Pham Khanh Ngoc at the New Year Concert 2025.
For the third consecutive year, the Hanoi Concert - New Year Concert of Hanoi Radio took place on January 1, 2025 at the Opera House, bringing a musical space filled with joy and excitement with the most classic works.
The program opened with the epic poem “Nguoi Ha Noi” by musician Nguyen Dinh Thi - a work always chosen as the opening highlight in the New Year Concert series of Hanoi Radio. The performance of singer Tuan Anh brought a heroic yet calm atmosphere, full of love for the capital.
Next, the instrumental piece Happy New Year by musician Do Kien Cuong, written for orchestra based on Vietnamese folk music, takes the audience on a "train" of sound from a symphony orchestra traveling across the country from North to South with folk melodies from the North, then the Central region, up to the Central Highlands and to the South. These are joyful melodies welcoming the new year with a strong Vietnamese character, with bright harmony and bustling rhythms to welcome the new year.
Next is the famous piece Ladies in Lavender , composed by British composer Nigel Hess in 2004, and Waltz of the Flowers from the second act of the Nutcracker ballet, which captivates people. The 2025 New Year's Concert also brings the audience back to the Russian composer - Dmitri Shostakovich - one of the greatest composers of the 20th century with the piece Festival Overture.
Symphony No. 5 - Destiny - is one of the most famous and popular classical music symphonies in the world by the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. It ends part 1 of the concert with a tone that carries the explosive meaning of strength, determination and desire to conquer, win and as a strong affirmation of the will to overcome challenges.
People's Artist Bui Cong Duy with his familiar violin and Meritorious Artist Pham Khanh Ngoc with his captivating opera voice opened part 2 of the program with the work Cinema Paradiso - a famous piece of music composed by Italian composer Ennio Morricone for the film of the same name directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, released in 1988, telling a touching story about memories and love.
Morricone's soulful and profound melody touched the hearts of millions of audiences around the world as well as the audience at the concert at the Hanoi Opera House. Meritorious Artist Pham Khanh Ngoc then performed a cheerful and energetic piece called Una voce poco fa from The Barber of Seville by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.
With her extremely charming, skillful and emotional voice, Soprano Bao Yen and the orchestra brought the joyful and graceful aria Quel guardo il cavaliere by Italian opera composer Gaetano Donizetti. The aria with its beautiful, emotional melody and challenging vocal technique resounded on New Year's Day and truly conquered and captured the hearts of music lovers.
In the 2025 New Year Concert, for the first time, Hanoi Concert also introduced to the audience the German composer, Richard Wagner with the Overture from the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , one of the most classic operas. The indispensable melodies in the New Year Concert are the classic music of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II - "King of Waltz" which is also a gift that Hanoi Radio's 2025 New Year Concert gives to the audience.
The 2025 New Year Concert is not only a pure classical art program of classical music but also demonstrates the role of Hanoi Radio in bringing classical music closer to audiences nationwide, contributing to the development of the cultural industry in the capital.
People's Artist Bui Cong Duy accompanies Meritorious Artist Pham Khanh Ngoc at "Paradise Cinema":
Quynh An
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