Taipei Chinese Orchestra

【TCO Selection Series】

The Joy of Suffering: SHAO En & TCO

2025.04.13 (sun) 14:30

Venue: Zhongzheng Auditorium, Taipei Zhongshan Hall

Price: $300、500、800、1000 Buy ticket

To be authentic and truthful, music should come from the heart. TCO welcomes its former music director SHAO En in a returning concert engagement featuring several iconic works in the contemporary music repertoire. To showcase maestro SHAO's unique musicianship, the program includes CHEN Qigang's Violin Concerto The Joy of Suffering which employs the motifs from a classical Guqin music Yangquan Sandie to explore the essence of great sorrow and joy being a humanistic love. This work also showcases a wide spectrum of the symphonic textures in modern Chinese orchestra.

PERFORMERS

Conductor: SHAO En

Violin: William WEI

PROGRAMS

GUAN Xia (Arr. SHAO En): Mulan Psalm (Chinese Orchestra Version, World Premiere)

CHEN Qigang (Arr. SHAO En): The Joy of Suffering for Violin and Chinese Orchestra (Chinese Orchestra Version, World Premiere)

GUO Wenjing: Triptych, Reminiscences of an Ancient Capital

LIU Changyuan: The Four Seasons for Chinese Orchestra