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, and Beethoven.

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

Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser

NCPA Orchestra: YU Feng, conductor