Cool quartet
By Chen Jie | China Daily | Updated: 2016-05-20 07:32
Ahead of major concerts by Vienna Philharmonic in China, few members are now playing in the country. Chen Jie reports
In 2013, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra treated audiences in Beijing to a few of Beethoven's symphonies and piano concertos under the baton of Christian Thielemann.
It was the orchestra's fifth visit to the Chinese mainland after its Beijing debut in 1973 was conducted by Claudio Abbado. Conductor Zubin Mehta came to the city with the orchestra in 1996 and 2009, and conductor Seiji Ozawa to Shanghai and Beijing in 2004. Then, in 2014, when a classical concert venue opened in Shanghai, conductor Gustavo Dudamel presented the orchestra.
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