NCPA 2/19: the Concert of Cristina Ortiz and the Facts Behind

The Moonlight Sonata ended the first half of the concert. Apart from its popularity among Chinese, Ortiz might not have known that a piano recital in China has an educational significance, which in some ways outweighs the performance itself...

NCPA 2/19: the Concert of Cristina Ortiz and the Facts Behind

BY Tan Shuo | arts journalist

The Moonlight Sonata was a deterrent to say yes. This was something that Cristina Ortiz had not expected. The famous sonata of Beethoven was required to play on February 19, despite the fact that she had never played it publicly in her music career of 50 years.

It was in the 1990s that Ortiz made a recording of it, but a live performance is by no means the same, let alone after an interval of so many years. Ortiz once studies at the Curtis Institute with then director Rudolf Serkin (1903-1991), who was also an authoritative interpreter of Beethoven. To China National Theatre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the legacy Ortiz inherited in those years was quite enough to qualify her for the piece. Another reason behind the Moonlight choice was its power to boost box office—a fact in China, which was unknown to Ortiz and untold to her until much later...

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