音频列表

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  TAN Dun, Mozart, LIU Tianhua, and Beethoven

  January 06^th, 2022

  Join host George Preston, for the inaugural programme of "This Week from China's NCPA." We'll hear works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as Chinese composers TAN Dun and LIU Tianhua.
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  Beethoven, BAO Yuankai, Ravel, and Schubert

  January 13^th, 2022

  The great NCPA orchestra flexes its symphonic muscle with Beethoven's 8^th and Schubert's 6^th. Our programme will also feature Maestro LÜ Jia leading the orchestra in BAO Yuankai’s vivid folk infused symphonic suite "Drizzle in the South" and Ravel's Mother Goose Suite.
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  Verdi, Beethoven, XIAN Xinghai, and GUO Wenjing

  January 20^th, 2022

  This week, we'll hear the orchestral splendor of Beethoven’s Symphony No 2. Plus, the NCPA Chorus will be featured in XIAN Xinghai’s Yellow River Cantata, Verdi’s “Va, pensiero” from Nabucco, contemporary Chinese composer GUO Wenjing's symphonic poem Shu Dao Nan (or The Sichuan Road), which is based on the poetry of LI Bai from the Tang Dynasty, and Giuseppe Verdi's Overture to The Sicilian Vespers.
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  Ravel, Brahms, ZHANG Weiliang, and Bruckner

  January 27^th, 2022

  This week China's National Centre for the Performing Arts presents Anton Bruckner's bold and colourful Symphony No. 6, Brahms' choral and orchestral work Nänie, and ZHANG Weiliang's luscious folk-inspired Dreamworld for Dizi and Orchestra. Also featured is the 2021 Chopin Competition winner, Bruce Liu, in Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major.
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  Saint-Saëns, LIU Dehai, Mozart, Brahms

  February 03^th, 2022

  Pianist CHEN Sa joins the NCPA Orchestra and maestro LÜ Jia for Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 and French horn player ZENG Yun is featured in Mozart's charming Horn Concerto No. 4. We'll also hear the first concerto written for pipa and orchestra Little Sisters of the Grassland and Johannes Brahms’ heroic Symphony No. 3.
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  Tchaikovsky, Qigang Chen, Dvořák, ZHAO Jiping, Wagner, and Suppé

  February 10^th, 2022

  This week, we’ll hear Antonín Dvořák’s monumental Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”, Qigang Chen’s touching L’éloignement, the traditional Chinese orchestra sounds of ZHAO Jiping’s The Moon at Dawn over Lugou Bridge, and Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme featuring cellist Li-Wei Qin. We also get two opera overtures with Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer and Suppé’s Dichter und Bauer.
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  Britten, Prokofiev, LI Huanzhi, Schoenberg, CHEN Gang, Beethoven, and Wagner

  February 17^th, 2022

  This week, we’ll hear Arnold Schoenberg’s touching Transfigured Night; Britten’s Simple Symphony; Sergei Prokofiev’s brilliant Symphony No. 1 “Classical”; CHEN Gang’s virtuosic work for violin and orchestra The Sunshine on Tashkurgan; LI Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture; as well as overture favorites by Wagner, and Beethoven.
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  Beethoven, Chopin, ZHAO Cong, Haydn, and Debussy

  February 24^th, 2022

  This week, we’ll hear Beethoven’s grand Choral Fantasy, Chopin’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring the 18-year-old gifted pianist RAO Hao, the Symphony No. 103 by Haydn, Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and the Pipa and Orchestra work Flying Fairies of the Silk Road by pipa artist and composer ZHAO Cong.
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  Beethoven, ZHAO Jiping, Debussy, and SHI Guangnan

  March 03^th, 2022

  On our programme this week, we'll hear Beethoven's magnificent incidental music for Egmont, ZHAO Jiping's Cello Concerto, “The Disillusioned Dream” featuring cellist Li-Wei Qin, Debussy's impressionistic La mer, and a rousing choral and orchestral arrangement of SHI Guangnan’s song, In the Hopeful Field.
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  Bach, Beethoven, HE Zhanhao, CHEN Gang, Verdi, Julian Yu, and Strauss Jr.

  March 10^th, 2022

  On our programme this week, we’ll hear HE Zhanhao and CHEN Gang’s moving Violin Concerto The Butterfly Lovers, featuring soloist Siqing Lu; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1; Saito Hideo’s orchestral arrangement of J.S. Bach’s Chaconne in D minor; Julian Yu’s Concerto on Chinese Themes; and we’ll end our programme with music from some of Giuseppe Verdi’s most famous operas.
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  Glazunov, ZHAO Jiping, Beethoven, Brahms, FANG Kejie, and Strauss Jr.

  March 17^th, 2022

  This week, we’ll hear piano virtuoso Lang Lang perform with the NCPA Orchestra in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto. We’ll also hear Glazunov’s charming Concert Waltz No. 1, Brahms’ Song of Destiny and Chinese composer ZHAO Jiping’s fascinating Concerto for Violin and Orchestra with NING Feng.
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  WANG Yunfei, Strauss II, Qigang Chen, Beethoven, Schubert, and ZHANG Qianyi

  March 24^th, 2022

  This week, we’ll hear WANG Yunfei’s Spring Flowers and Autumn Fruits, Franz Schubert’s brilliant Symphony No. 9, Strauss Jr’s hypnotic By the Beautiful Blue Danube, Qigang Chen’s colourful work Jiang Tcheng Tse, Beethoven’s Overture to the Ruins of Athens, and ZHANG Qianyi’s Overture “My Homeland”.
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  Beethoven, XU Changjun, Wagner, Johann Straus, ZHANG Qianyi

  April 01^th, 2022

  This week, we’ll hear Beethoven’s famed Symphony No. 9 “Choral”, the thunderous rhythms of XU Changjun’s Dragon Dance, Wagner’s Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin, Johann Strauss’s Frühlingsstimmen, and the song “Silhouettes of Angels” written in dedication to the frontline workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.