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Skin-deep and saccharine: a one-dimensional performance from Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall

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“This was musical small talk: polite pleasantries and no substance”
Reviewed at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on 16 May 2017
Britten, Peter Grimes, Op.33a: Four Sea Interludes
Ye Xiaogang, Guangdong Music Suite, Op.51 (GSO Commission, 2005)
Zhao, Duo (For cello, sheng and orchestra)
Stravinsky, The Firebird: Suite (1919 version)
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra
Jian Wang, Cello
Lei Jia, Sheng
Long Yu, Conductor
Tan Dun conducts the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra in Zurich
****1
Hong Kong Phil revels in Schoenberg’s beefed-up Brahms
****1
Prom 57: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra makes its Proms debut
****1
A trio of Slavic works in Hong Kong
****1
Weaving tales: Long Yu conducts Scheherazade in Hong Kong
****1
Pacy Tchaikovsky from Long Yu and the Philharmonia
***11
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