Orchestra Concert
The 2020 China Now Music Festival closes with a landmark performance of Beethoven’s complete Egmont, his musical setting of the 1787 play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in a new production by the China NCPA Orchestra in Beijing. With narration in Mandarin by Sun Qiang, and featuring soprano Song Yuanming, the concert was recorded live at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on November 12, 2020, conducted by Lü Jia.
China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra
PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Incidental Music to Goethe's Egmont, Op. 84
I. Overture
II. Lied: “Die Trommel gerühret”
III. Entr’acte I
IV. Entr’acte II
V. Lied: “Freudvoll und leidvoll”
VI. Entr’acte III. Allegro - Marcia
VII. Entr’acte IV. Poco sostenuto e risoluto
VIII. Klarchens Tod bezeichnend
IX. Melodrama
X. Siegessymphonie
China NCPA Orchestra
Lü Jia, conductor
Sun Qiang, narrator
Song Yuanming, soprano
Translation by: LI Jianming
