Like Wu, erhu (a two-stringed traditional instrument) player Tang Feng was one of the musicians who performed at the concert in Vienna in 1998. On Lantern Festival in 2022, Wu returned to the stage and performed with the orchestra by working with xiao (a vertical bamboo flute) player Wang Ciheng on an ancient Chinese music piece, Blossoms on a Spring Moonlight Night. We knew that the concert was a great success." "By the end of the concert, the audience gave us a rousing round of applause. "The venue looked much older than it did on TV, but it was a historic space with traces of history everywhere," Wu adds. All of us were very excited because we were about to show our music to an audience from around the world," recalls Wu, who played with the orchestra in Vienna in 1998 and also gave a solo display on her musical instrument. When we entered the venue, we had no time to walk around, since we had a very tight rehearsal schedule. "The day that we performed at the Musikverein in Vienna in 1998 was Lunar New Year's Eve. The day has long lived in the memory of pipa player Wu Yuxia. We wanted to present the concert, not only marking the concert in 1998 in Vienna, but also displaying the growth of the orchestra from 1998 to 2022," says Zhao. After two 12-year cycles, 2022 was also the Year of the Tiger. "According to the Chinese calendar, 1998 was the Year of the Tiger. In 2021, Zhao was appointed to the position of president of the China National Traditional Orchestra and that year, the concert, The Year of Roaring Tiger, was planned for the Lantern Festival in 2022. When I watched the news, I was very excited and proud, hoping that, one day, I would be a member of the orchestra." "I was a pipa student then, and at that time, Chinese music was rarely performed abroad, let alone being staged at such a great venue. The venue has a long classical music history and many top musicians from around the world perform there," says Zhao. "For a Chinese audience, the Musikverein, also known as the 'Golden Hall', is very famous because of CCTV's live broadcast of the venue's New Year's concert. She can still recall vividly that she watched the news on TV about the concert of the China National Traditional Orchestra at the Musikverein. It was the first time that the orchestra performed at the iconic venue, which was a glorious and historic event in the orchestra's history," says Zhao Cong, president of the China National Traditional Orchestra, who is also a veteran pipa (a four-stringed Chinese lute) player.īack in 1998, Zhao was a student of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. "The concert held on the day of the Lantern Festival in 2022 celebrated the 24th anniversary of the China National Traditional Orchestra's concert at the Musikverein in Vienna in 1998. The album is a live recording of a concert by the China National Traditional Orchestra under the baton of Chen Xieyang, which was staged at the NCPA on Feb 15, 2022, the Lantern Festival of the Year of the Tiger.įeaturing music pieces, such as Spring Festival Overture, Blossoms on a Spring Moonlight Night and Erquan Yingyue (The Moon Reflected in the Erquan Spring), the album also commemorates a landmark concert by the China National Traditional Orchestra, also conducted by Chen, in Vienna in 1998. On Feb 5, the day of the Lantern Festival, an album, titled The Year of Roaring Tiger, was released by NCPA Classics, the music label of the National Centre for the Performing Arts. Vienna performance in 1998 seen as breakthrough for China National Traditional Orchestra.
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