Britten, Prokofiev, LI Huanzhi, Schoenberg, CHEN Gang, Beethoven, Wagner

This Week from China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts

This week, we’ll hear Arnold Schoenberg’s touching Transfigured Night; Britten’s Simple Symphony; Sergei Prokofiev’s brilliant Symphony No. 1 “Classical”; CHEN Gang’s virtuosic work for violin and orchestra The Sunshine on Tashkurgan; LI Huanzhi’s Spring Festival Overture; as well as overture favorites by Wagner, and Beethoven.