A Journey through Lands and Sounds

-- China Philharmonic Orchestra Performs Symphonic Concert

of Guo Wenjing's Music

19:30 ｜ Sunday | Oct 9 ｜ Poly Theatre

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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