This Week from China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts
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This Week from China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts
This Week from China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts showcases the best-in-class musicianship of the orchestra of Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) and its affiliated programmes in choral music, traditional Chinese forms, opera, and more. With a focus on presenting f...
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Beethoven, XU Changjun, Wagner, Johann Straus, ZHANG Qianyi
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 Lo...
WANG Yunfei, Strauss II, Qigang Chen, Beethoven, Schubert, and ZHANG Qianyi
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 Beautifu...
Glazunov, ZHAO Jiping, Beethoven, Brahms, FANG Kejie, and Strauss Jr.
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...
Bach, Beethoven, HE Zhanhao, CHEN Gang, Verdi, Julian Yu, and Strauss Jr.
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...
Beethoven, ZHAO Jiping, Debussy, and SHI Guangnan
On our programme this week, we’ll hear Beethoven’s magnificent incidental music for Egmont, ZHAO Jiping’s Cello Concerto, “The Disillusioned Dream” fe...
Beethoven, Chopin, ZHAO Cong, Haydn, and Debussy
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...
Britten, Prokofiev, LI Huanzhi, Schoenberg, CHEN Gang, Beethoven, Wagner
This week, we’ll hear Arnold Schoenberg’s touching Transfigured Night; Britten’s Simple Symphony; Sergei Prokofiev’s brilliant Symphony No. 1 “Classic...
Tchaikovsky, Qigang Chen, Dvořák, ZHAO Jiping, Wagner, and Suppé
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 o...
Ravel, Brahms, ZHANG Weiliang, and Bruckner
This week China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts presents, Anton Bruckner’s bold and colourful Symphony No. 6, Brahms’ choral and orchestral...
Saint-Saëns, LIU Dehai, Mozart, Brahms
Pianist CHEN Sa joins the NCPA Orchestra and maestro Lv Jia for Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 and French horn player ZENG Yun is featured in Mozar...
Verdi, Beethoven, XIAN Xinghai, and GUO Wenjing
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 Cant...
Beethoven, BAO Yuankai, Ravel, and Schubert
The great NCPA orchestra flexes its symphonic muscle with Beethoven's 8th and Schubert's 6th. Our programme will also feature Maestro Lv Jia leading t...
TAN Dun, Mozart, LIU Tianhua, and Beethoven
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...