A Journey through Lands and Sounds
-- China Philharmonic Orchestra Performs Symphonic Concert
of Guo Wenjing's Music
19:30 ｜ Sunday | Oct 9 ｜ Poly Theatre
Ticket (CNY): VIP880/680/380/180/50
China Philharmonic Orchestra
This concert, performed by the young conductor Huang Yi and the China Philharmonic Orchestra, presents Guo Wenjing's works composed in this century, three of which are created in the last five years. With modern Western techniques, Guo's music captures his sensitive perception of the sensibilities and customs of contemporary China. His music goes beyond images and tries to explore and achieve complex thoughts and feelings. In this concert, Riyue Mountain evokes the grandeur of the mountain ranges with complex polyphony; Wild Fire explores the powerful side of the traditionally delicate instrument, of which the soloist Tang Junqiao is one of the best exponents; the ballet suite Dunhuang praises the devotion of the young guardians of Chinese cultural heritage; and Journeys reveals the composer's affinity with contemporary Chinese poetry, whose profundity the renowned soprano Song Yuanming captures with her superb and expressive singing. These works, different as they are, all reveals the composer's pursuit of an emotional depth and philosophical profundity comparable to Beethoven, Brahms and Shostakovich, as well as his strenuous reflection on history and humanity.
Riyue Mountain, Passacaglia for Orchestra (2020) 15'
Bamboo Flute Concerto No.2 Wild Fire - for bamboo flute
and orchestra (2010) 20'
I.Allegro feroce
II.Lento-Moderato-Lento
III.Presto
—Intermission—
Dunhuang Ballet Suite No. 2 The Youth and Love,
Death and Immortality of the Guardians（2017） 19'
I. Apsaras -- The Desert -- The Oasis
Journeys , for Soprano and Orchestra on poems
by Xi Chuan (2004/2021) 30'
I. The Starry Sky
II. The Constellations across Your Soul
III. The Flowers of the Earth
IV. Surging into the Heaven Is the Sea
Bamboo flute: Tang Junqiao
Soprano: Song Yuanming
Orchestra: China Philharmonic
Conductor: Huang Yi