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Ma Weijia explores changing instrumental colours with violin, piano, guqin, viola, cello, harp and organ.
The programme moves from violin and piano to works with guqin, then to a combination of violin, harp and organ. Three works by Yao Chen are the last three pieces of the first half. Multimedia projections extend across the organ, ceiling and side walls of the hall.
Violin: Ma Weijia; Guqin: Chen Leiji; Viola: Li Bingxi; Cello: Wang Haoyu; Organ: Shen Yuan; Harp: Huang Liya; Piano: Wu Qiong; Violin making and adjustment: Guo Hao.
Full programme
- Jenő Hubay - Violin Solo from The Violin Maker of Cremona, Op. 40a
- Pietro Nardini - Larghetto (arr. Klengel)
- Niccolò Paganini - Cantabile and Waltz (arr. Ruggiero Ricci)
- Sergei Rachmaninoff - Daisies (arr. Fritz Kreisler)
- Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No.1 (arr. Fritz Kreisler)
- Yao Chen - Mountain
- Yao Chen - To the Tune of Xijiangyue - Life Is a Great Dream
- Yao Chen - One More Cup of Wine Before You Go
Intermission
- Richard Wagner - Fantasy on Overture Themes (arr. Zhang Chi and Shen Yuan)
- Richard Strauss - A Dream of Tomorrow - Fantasy on Symphonic Themes (arr. Feng Jinpeng and Shen Yuan)
- Gustav Mahler - Adagio
- Gustav Holst - Venus the Bringer of Peace (arr. Shen Yuan)
Arrangement: Ruggiero Ricci.