Celebrating the imminent start of the Chinese New Year on February 10, 2024, China’s NCPA Orchestra presents an astounding selection of works by Chinese and Western composers. The rousing Spring Festival Overture begins the program with a performance done in partnership with the China National Traditional Orchestra along with three other orchestras. We also hear Ravel’s Boléro and Ma Sicong’s Second Symphony following. Listeners will be thrilled by pipa virtuoso Li Jia’s performance of the concerto Little Sisters of the Grassland, and the broadcast closes with Lü Jia conducting Brahms’s Symphony No. 3.
Celebrating the Chinese New Year
Maestro Lü Jia
Playlist
Li Huanzhi: Spring Festival Overture for Chinese Orchestra
China National Traditional Orchestra, China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra, China National Opera & Dance Drama Theatre Chinese Orchestra, and Beijing Chinese Orchestra; Peng Jiapeng, conductor
Maurice Ravel: Boléro
Ma Sicong: Symphony No. 2
Wu Zuqiang, Liu Dehai, Wang Yanqiao: Pipa Concerto, Little Sisters of the Grassland
Li Jia, pipa; Chen Lin, conductor
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
Lü Jia, conductor