The National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra is to embark on a five-day concert tour in Austria and the Czech Republic next month.
The orchestra is to travel under director Liu Suan-yung (劉玄詠) and guest violinist Tseng Yu-chien (曾宇謙), who won second prize at the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition in 2015.
The orchestra is to perform its “Listening to Taiwan” concert at the Brahms-Saal in Vienna on Friday next week, and at the Czech Republic’s Pansky dvur Telc on Nov. 3 and the University of Ostrava on Nov. 4, the orchestra said.
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The orchestra’s string ensemble is to perform Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with Tseng during the first half of these three concerts, it added.
The second half of the concerts would highlight the works of two Taiwanese composers: Austrian-Taiwanese composer Shih Chieh’s (施捷) Night falls upon the River and Chen Shu-si’s (陳樹熙) Singing Festival from his Tung Flower Suite and Ilisin Ongkak arrangements, the orchestra said.
For the next two concerts — which are to take place at the Hradec Kralove Philharmonic Hall on Nov. 5 and the Smetana Hall in Prague on Nov. 8 — the orchestra would be joined by Japanese conductor Eiji Oue.
The latter concerts are to feature Czech composer Bedrich Smetana’s Overture from Bartered Bride, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61, Taiwanese composer Li Yuan-chen’s (李元貞) Resounding — The Singing Voice of Mt. Ali and Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite (1919 version), the orchestra added.
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