Orchestra of the Royal Opera House of Versailles.
Last night, the National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra, together with conductor Sun Yifan and soprano Song Yuanming, opened the 2024 weekly radio concert season at the Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall with chamber orchestra works by Wagner and Mahler. The series of activities for the 20th anniversary of the classic 947 officially kicked off. At the time of spring and dawn, Shanghai's music scene continues to be updated - in Shanghai's major theaters and concert halls, a number of domestic and foreign famous groups have appeared one after another with high-quality repertoire, bringing wonderful notes to music fans.
Domestic famous troupes present colorful masterpieces
Spring has arrived, and conductors have prepared blockbuster repertoire, waiting for the arrival of Shanghai audiences. Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall will become a great place for symphony lovers in the past two months. In mid-March and the end of March, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by conductor Lu Shaojia and music director Yu Long respectively, playing a number of highly anticipated works by music fans. This year coincides with the bicentenary of the birth of the famous composer Bruckner, and Lu Shaojia will perform Bruckner’s massive and complex Fifth Symphony. Long Yu will join hands with cellist Wang Jian, an old friend for decades, to perform Tchaikovsky's only cello concerto "Variations on a Rococo Theme" at the end of the month, while also playing Berlioz's "Symphony Fantasy" full of French romantic style. song".
This spring, the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra has also assembled a batch of attractive repertoire. In the middle of this month, deputy director and permanent conductor Zhang Liang will conduct the orchestra to perform Shostakovich's "Fifth Symphony". At the same concert, British-based pianist Kong Jianing will also perform Schumann's only piano concerto "Piano Concerto in A minor" with the orchestra, bringing romantic lyricism. Later this month, Russian-born piano "genius" Valery Afanasyev will perform Beethoven's "Piano Concerto No. 3" with the Shanghai Philharmonic, conducted by artistic director Zhang Yi. In mid-April, the "Enjoy the Earth" series of concerts will take everyone to "walk through America". At that time, Zhang Liang will conduct the orchestra and join hands with pianist Yuan Jie to perform Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue", showing the symphony of "American flavor".
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France. There are many performances on the Shanghai music stage composed by French artists. Berlioz is a major representative of the French romantic school. At the end of this month, the approximately 100-minute dramatic symphony "Romeo and Juliet" composed by the composer will be played on the stage in Shanghai. Conductor Xu Zhong will conduct the Shanghai Opera House Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, and join hands with a group of singers to interpret Berlioz's love for Shakespeare and his yearning for ideal love.
Many overseas conductors made their debut on the Shanghai stage
Shanghai is an important center of Chinese classical music, and many international famous groups choose to come to tour. In April this year, the Shanghai Oriental Art Center's core brand "Listen to the Symphony·Go to the East" will welcome three conductors who are currently attracting international attention - Christian Mesela, Wayne Marshall, Stefan... Planac, and they will all make their debut on the Shanghai stage.
The West German Radio Symphony Orchestra will perform the complete four symphonies of Brahms under the baton of chief conductor Christian Mesela. As early as 2015, the orchestra also brought this complete set when it toured China, and became the first German orchestra to perform the complete set of Brahms symphonies in China. During this return visit to Shanghai, the orchestra will hold concerts on two consecutive nights: on April 17, it will perform Brahms’s First and Third Symphonies; on April 18, it will perform Brahms’s Second and Fourth Symphonies. song.
In Vienna, a city with many famous orchestras, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra is especially good at recording film music and has recorded original sounds for many movies. This time the orchestra will present masterpieces of John Williams' "Star Wars" and other film scores, and will also perform George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris." This year coincides with the centenary of the creation of "Rhapsody in Blue". Wayne Marshall has dual identities as a performer and conductor. He will be the piano soloist and perform the masterpiece with the orchestra.
What is the real "Versailles"? The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House of Versailles will give music fans a close-up experience on the Shanghai stage.On this first visit to China, the orchestra will bring its best baroque opera excerpts and Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" under the baton of Stefan Plenac.
This spring, international superstars such as German violinist Mutter and Austrian pianist Buchbinder will return to Shanghai to hold solo concerts at the Oriental Art Center. At the Shanghai Concert Hall, three world-renowned Asian musicians, Wang Jian, Zheng Mingxun and Takezawa Kyoko, will join hands to present the piano trios of Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
Author: Jiang Fang
Text: Our reporter Jiang Fang Picture: Shanghai Oriental Art Center Photo courtesy Editor: Shi Wei Editor: Xing Xiaofang
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