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, Verdi, and Beethoven.
Britten, Prokofiev, Li Huanzhi, Schoenberg, Chen Gang, Beethoven, Wagner, and Verdi
NCPA Orchestra (photo: NCPA)
Playlist
Li Huanzhi: Spring Festival Overture
NCPA Orchestra: Lü Jia, conductor
Britten: Simple Symphony, Op. 4
NCPA Orchestra: Li Xincao, conductor
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, “Classical”
NCPA Orchestra: Li Xincao, conductor
Chen Gang: The Sunshine on Tashkurgan
Gao Can, violin; Beijing Symphony Orchestra: Tan Lihua, conductor
Schoenberg: Transfigured Night, Op. 4
NCPA Orchestra: Li Xincao, conductor
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
NCPA Orchestra: Lü Jia, conductor
Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino
NCPA Orchestra: Yu Feng, conductor
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
NCPA Orchestra: Yu Feng, conductor