Qian conducts Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Chen

Conductor Junping Qian joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a free afternoon studio concert at Maida Vale. Stravinsky provides the Fireworks to open the concert, followed by violist Diyang Mei who joins the BBC SO to perform the UK premiere of Chinese-French composer Qigang Chen’s Reflet d’un temps disparu (Reflections of a Vanished time), originally for cello and orchestra but here in an arrangement for viola. The concert ends with Shostakovich...