National Ballet of China

Performing video of concert "Youth" on January 9

On January 9, Zhang Yi, the renowned conductor and Music Director of the National Ballet of China led the NBC Symphony Orchestra as the conductor to present a concert themed "Youth" with the joint efforts of the famous violinist Huang Bin in the Concert Hall of National Centre for the Performing Arts.

The concert started with the household orchestral music Spring Festival Overture, followed by Lyrical Tone Poem by the Russian composer Alexander Glazunov.

Next, the famous violinist Huang Bin performed jointly with NBC Symphony Orchestra for two of the violin masterpieces, i.e., Melody by Tchaikovsky and Tzigane by Maurice Ravel.

Then, the Orchestra performed The Solidarity of the Chinese Nation by composer Yu Jingjun.

The second half started in Flavour of Hebei by composer Yu Jingjun.

What came to follow was the Hoedown from ballet Rodeo by Aaron Copland, Londonderry Air by the UK composer Percy Grainger, and Pomp and Circumstance Marches by composer Edward Elgar.

After those were the Farandole by Georges Bizet and Youth by the famous contemporary composer Shi Wanchun.

And for the last, we presented the Javelin by composer Michael Torke to celebrate the upcoming XXIV Olympic Winter Games.

Conductor Zhang Yi and the Orchestra performed the "Little Lyrical Scene" from The Comedians Suite by the Russian composer Kabalevsky and Radetzky Marsch by Johann Strauss I as the encores.

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