PERFORMERS:
Soloists:
Luo Wei (piano)
Semyon Salomatnikov (trumpet)
China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra
Conductor: Li Xincao
PROGRAMME:
Lyu Qiming
Ode to the Red Flag
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Chen Qigang
Joie éternelle for trumpet and orchestra
Alexander Scriabin
Poème de l’extase, Op. 54
The China NCPA Orchestra is the resident orchestra of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Beijing. Established in March 2010, the ensemble performs in more than thirty opera productions presented by its home venue every year as well as in regular concerts in its own season.
Artists associated with the orchestra included Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung, Fabio Luisi, Christoph Eschenbach, Shao-Chia Lü, Xian Zhang, Rudolf Buchbinder, Lang Lang, Stephen Kovacevich, Yuja Wang, Jian Wang, Gautier Capuçon, Kyung Wha Chung, Vadim Repin, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming and Leo Nucci among many others. Lorin Maazel worked closely with the orchestra before his passing and praised the musicians for their “amazing professionalism and great passion in music”.
The orchestra has gained critical acclaim for its performances in NCPA’s opera productions of not only classical repertoire such as Tristan und Isolde, Der Rosenkavalier, Tosca and Aida but also newly commissioned works like Rickshaw Boy, The Long March and The Jinsha River. In its own concert season it has consistently presented creative and diverse programmes. Their performance of Ring Without Words with its creator, Lorin Maazel, was released on Sony Classical worldwide. The orchestra also gave the Chinese premieres of works by Toru Takemitsu among others, commissioned and world premiered many works by Michael Gordon, Augusta Read Thomas, Qigang Chen and Jiping Zhao to name but a few.
The NCPA Orchestra has flexed its wings on the international stage, receiving widespread international praise for its performances at the Kissinger Sommer festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and concerts in many cities in Germany, as well as in Sydney, Singapore, Seoul, Daegu, Abu Dhabi, Taipei and Macau. The orchestra undertook its first North American tour in 2014 and the revisiting tour in 2017, where it played at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Symphony Center, San Francisco’s Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall and other major venues in the USA and Canada, under the baton of Lü Jia. Musical America praised its “joyful confidence and youthful strength”, ConcertoNet.com described it as “a polished, first-rate ensemble”.
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