BBC Concert Orchestra: China Tour - BBC Concert Orchestra

31 Oct – 9 Nov 2018, China

BBC Concert Orchestra: China Tour

19:00 Wed 31 Oct 2018 China

The BBC Concert Orchestra tour China with the virtuoso percussionist Bei Bei Wang and conductor Barry Wordsworth.

Programme

- - Malcolm Arnold
  - English Dances, Set No. 1
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
- - Iain Farrington
  - Sea Songs Serenade
- - Frederick Delius
  - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
- - Eric Coates
  - Springtime Suite Mvts 2 and 3
  - Noonday Song - Romance
  - Dance in the Twilight - Valse
- - Edward Elgar
  - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D major, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’
- - Tan Dun
  - Percussion concerto “Tears of Nature”
- - Unknown
  - My Motherland

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Bei Bei Wang
percussion
percussion
Barry Wordsworth
conductor
conductor
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The BBC Concert Orchestra tour China with the virtuoso percussionist Bei Bei Wang and conductor Barry Wordsworth. Performing a programme of English and Chinese repertoire, they visit Shenyang (31 October), Qingdao (2 November), Changsha (4 November), Hefei (6 November), Shanghai (7 November) and Nanjing (9 November).

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