Founded in 1957, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra has attracted wide attention from the industry and media at home and abroad, and is one of the most internationally influential Chinese orchestras. In the past 20 years, the Canton Symphony Association has achieved remarkable results, and is one of the chinese professional orchestras that has continuously implemented the highest record for music seasons (since 1998) and is the only Chinese orchestra invited to tour the five continents of the world. In May this year, the Canton Exchange just completed its 15th international tour since the new century, and the British "Guardian" gave high praise and coverage under the title of "Extremely Highly Cultivated Orchestra".
This year coincides with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Canton Symphony Orchestra, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra and the Talent Art Dictionary jointly produced and launched this set of "Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra 60th Anniversary Live Recording Collection" to commemorate this historical moment! This album debuted at the "2017 Guangzhou International Audio Record Exhibition". The author interviewed the producer of this album, Mr. Chen Qing, director of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and Mr. Liu Da, the founder and producer of the Talent Art Festival.
Mr. Chen Qing is a musician who is very familiar to our local music fans in Guangzhou, before becoming the head of the group, he was the chief seat of the Canton Symphony Oboe Player, and it is precisely because of his familiarity with the Canton Symphony that Chen Qing is familiar with every performance and every musician he has worked with in this album. As the most active and numerous recording producer in the classical music industry in recent years, Mr. Liu Da has been widely praised in the field of audiophile records and the classical music recording industry.
First of all, Mr. Chen Qing introduced us to some lesser-known behind-the-scenes stories of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Canton Straits Communications Association. Originally, since June 1998, the main venue of canton performances has been transferred to the newly completed Xinghai Concert Hall with world-class sound effects and recording facilities. Since the opening concert of Xinghai Concert Hall on June 13, 1998, every important concert performed by Canton In Xinghai Concert Hall has been recorded. In September 2009, Canton Exchange Park entered the No. 1 Building of Haishan Street, which is adjacent to the Xinghai Concert Hall and has a first-class environment with perfect facilities. In addition to the international advanced orchestra rehearsal venue facilities, the building is also equipped with the first-class hardware "Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra Recording and Production Center" (GSO Studio).
From the first concert of the first season in 1998 to the closing concert of the 20th season of 2017 (2016/2017), the Canton Exchange has performed a total of 1506 concerts, with a total of 12456 performances. Among them, a total of 664 concerts were recorded live, and a total of 3255 songs were performed. Some classics are even widely available in more than ten versions of the recording. In such a huge repertoire, it is a huge project to select 60 representative works to be included in this album, and the 60 works that are finally included in the album cover opera, symphony, contemporary works, concertos and other genres, spanning from the Baroque period to contemporary new creations. For example, Richard Strauss's oversized "Alpine Symphony" and Bartók's one-act opera "The Castle of the Bluebeard Duke" are also included in the international stage. In the whole set of records, the audience will enjoy the wonderful performances of many Chinese music elites, and will also listen to the wonderful and unforgettable moments of the collision between the international music masters and the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.
Another feature of the album is that it not only includes live recordings of the Xinghai Concert Hall but also includes live music from the Canton Symphony Orchestra's concert at vienna's Musikverein. In addition, due to the large recording time span of this album, audiophile fans who like to compare can compare the evolution of the entire orchestra performance effect of the Canton Symphony in this span.
This set of classical album sets that integrate multiple artists and works, the biggest difficulty in producing and producing is not only the trade-off of historical recordings, but also involves a large number of copywriting material compilation, picture art editing, work version screening and artist copyright coordination, etc., a strong professional production team is the key to whether this set of works can be formed. Therefore, the Canton Symphony And Orchestra and the most active and record company in the domestic classical music industry in recent years and the largest number of record companies have joined forces to provide professional and stable production support for the production of this set of records, and finally successfully launched this heavyweight collection on the occasion of the 60th anniversary celebration concert of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra under the continuous struggle of the Canton Symphony Orchestra and the Talent Team, which also marks that the Chinese record industry has once again stood at the forefront of the world's serious music works publishing and promotion.
60 live recordings of live performances of Canton Fair
Wonderful performances by 68 Chinese and foreign musicians
39CD live recordings
Limited edition of 1000 units
Album won
The 10th China Golden Disc Awards Best Album in the Instrumental Category
2017 Top 10 Audiophile Albums chart Music Collection of the Year Award
2018 Guangzhou International Audio Record Exhibition Jubilee Awards Special Awards Best Recording Collection
Jubilee Awards for Best Orchestral Album
Jubilee Awards for Best Orchestra
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1957, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra is one of the earliest symphony orchestras established in China after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In addition, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra is the only symphony orchestra in China that has toured on five continents.
Over the years, the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra has invited many famous Chinese and foreign conductors and performers to hold successful cooperative performances together, these famous foreign musicians come from Germany, Britain, Russia, France, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries.
In order to continuously expand the performance space, in addition to symphony concert performances, the orchestra has performed with a number of world-renowned ballet companies, including: the Royal Ballet, the British National Ballet, the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet of the former Soviet Union, the Paris Opera Ballet in France, the Hungarian National Ballet, the German National Opera Ballet, the Australian National Ballet, the Cuban National Ballet, etc. Performed in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, The Nutcracker, Gloria, Don Quixote, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cinderella, Hoffman's Story, Narcissus, La Traviata, Anna? Karenina" and many other famous ballets.
A selection of 60 works from thousands of live performance recordings
The Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra's 60th Anniversary Live Recording Collection is a selection of hundreds of representative tracks from the Canton Symphony Orchestra's catalogue of thousands of live performance recordings, and then comparing all the recordings of all versions to select the 60 works that appear in this set.
The Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra's 60th Anniversary Live Recording Collection includes operas, symphonies, Chinese works (including Canton Fair commissions or premieres), concertos and other types of orchestral works, covering everything from the music of the European Baroque period to new creations of contemporary China.
Richard Strauss's oversized Alpine Symphony, Bartók's one-act opera The Castle of the Bluebeard Duke, and other rare repertoire on the domestic stage are of course included. The works of the deceased Christopher Hogwood, Giri Bellowevik, Joseph Schifferstein, and Cao Zheng are also included, and the Slovaks are deceased, but fortunately there are still these recordings to remember.
It includes wonderful interpretations by 68 musicians from Canton, China and abroad
In the whole set of records, you will enjoy the wonderful performances of many Chinese music elites, and you will also hear christopher Hogwood, Yaček Caspchik, Gary. Grafman, Ralph van Rattle, Jean Yves Thibodet and other international music masters collided with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra for the most wonderful and unforgettable moments.
First-class soundstage + exciting interpretation
Most of the works of "Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra 60th Anniversary Live Recording Collection" come from the live recording of the concert of Xinghai Concert Hall, which is known as the best acoustic venue in China, that is, the artistic performance of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra after entering the mature and stable period, and this set of records is witnessed by the orchestra's wonderful concerts, recording the milestone moments in the performance history of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to the live recordings of the Xinghai Concert Hall, the whole album also includes the recording of canton's concert in the vienna music friends association hall (commonly known as the golden hall), selected from the first european tour of canton. Canton Symphony performed for the first time in the world's recognized world-class music temple, what kind of spark did the collision of Chinese and Western cultures produce? Let's listen!
The China Golden Disc Award is approved by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, and is an academic and artistic high-level reward activity in the evaluation of literary and artistic programs in China's record and audio-visual industry. In order to adapt to today's record publishing industry, this year's Golden Records have been refined again, reducing the number of awards to 20, and the winning records need to be both marketable, professional and artistic. The competition is more intense, and the real selection of the masterpieces of the times that are outstanding and represent the high standards of the Chinese recording industry.
104-page hardcover brochure with album information + historical pictures
This 104-page hardcover brochure is illustrated with pictures and texts on the history of the development of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. The track list also lists the title, conductor, performer, orchestra, length of the piece, date of performance and historical photos of each piece included in the CD, so that fans can further understand and appreciate it.
Album tracks
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra 60th Anniversary Live Recording Collection" 39CD
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Giacomo Puccini: The Opera "Turandot"
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Giacomo Puccini: The Opera "The Artist's Career"
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Giuseppe Verdi: The Opera La Traviata
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Franz Lehar: Operetta