The 10th Beijing Music Festival (BMF) kicked off in Poly Theatre
Friday evening with artists from the most famous music orchestras
coming to celebrate the grand ceremony, Chinese website Sina
Entertainment reports.
The 10th Beijing Music
Festival kicks off in Poly Theatre on Friday evening, September 21,
2007.
The Grand Opening of the festival was the All-Beethoven Program,
performed by Chinese pianist Lang Lang and German conductor Daniel
Barenboim with Staatskapelle Berlin, the national orchestra of
Berlin. Classic pieces like Leonore Overture No.3, Op.72a, Piano
Concerto No.5 in E flat major, Op.73 ("Emperor"), and Symphony No.5
in C minor, Op.67 were played during the concert.
As the first Chinese pianist who has cooperated with both Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra and the five top orchestras of the United
States, Lang Lang will play ten piano concertos with five world
famous symphony orchestras, cooperating with six great conductors
during the one-month festival.
Artists from seven famous orchestras - Staatskapelle Berlin,
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra,
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, China
Philharmonic Orchestra and Shanghai Opera House – are attending
this year's Beijing Music Festival, making the 10th anniversary of
BMF the most resplendent.
The 'Chinese Concept', which the Beijing Music Festival has held
for ten years, will still be emphasized this year. Peking Opera
'The Wilderness' based on the play by Chinese author Cao Yu, Opera
'Poet Li Bai', 'Poetry at the BMF - Poems and Songs of the Song
Dynasty' and Singapore Chinese Orchestra Concert will all show the
audience the splendor of Chinese culture.
Another feature of Beijing Music Festival is "commission"- to
commit excellent composers to produce new pieces for BMF. This
year, Chinese composer Tan Dun's "Secret Land: for Orchestra and 12
Violoncelli" and "Symphony No.8" from Polish composer Krzysztof
Penderecki, together form the commission concert of BMF - "Sounding
the Future: East and West".
In addition, "Heavenly Bach, Bach's Suites for Solo Cello"
played by Jian Wang, '"he Nigel Kennedy Quintet: Blue Note
Sessions" and Mischa Maisky - Lily Maisky's "Russian Romances" are
other highlights at the BMF concerts.
With great contributions to world culture and arts exchanges,
Beijing Music Festival has become a symbolic cultural activity of
Beijing and a world famous international music ceremony. It has
also brought the Olympic atmosphere along with six years of Olympic
preparation and become a shining city card of 'Culture-enriched
Olympics'.
German conductor Daniel Barenboim of
Staatskapelle Berlin, the national orchestra of Berlin, performs in
the opening ceremony of the 10th Beijing Music Festival in Poly
Theatre on Friday evening, September 21, 2007.
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Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays with German
conductor Daniel Barenboim in the opening ceremony of the 10th
Beijing Music Festival in Poly Theatre on Friday evening, September
21, 2007.
The curtain call of Chinese pianist Lang Lang
and German conductor Daniel Barenboim in the opening ceremony of
the 10th Beijing Music Festival in Poly Theatre on Friday evening,
September 21, 2007.
(CRI.cn September 22, 2007)
