A Chinese Night – Classical Music Open Air in Dresden

For their Chinese Night, staged in the open air by the Staatskapelle Dresden in the city's central park, the long-established German orchestra - one of the oldest in the world - called upon the services of three artists from the land of Cathay: the young pianist Yuja Wang already hailed as a world star, the Paganini Competition prizewinner Mengla Huang and the world-class Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang. The main work of the evening is RACHMANINOFF's Third Piano Concerto, other pieces are RIMSKY-KORSAKOV's Capriccio Espagnol, PROKOFIEV's March from The Love For Three Oranges and also excerpts from the Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto by the Chinese composers CHEN GANG and HE ZHANHAO, one of the best known works of contemporary Chinese music. ----- Program: Chen GANG/He ZHANHAO: Parts from "The Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto“; Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34; Sergei RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30; Vladimir HOROWITZ: Variations on a theme from Georges Bizet’s “Carmen“; Sergey PROKOFIEV: March from "The Love For Three Oranges“