The concert started on time at 8 pm on the 23rd. The Chinese musicians performed three pieces of music with great momentum and expressed their best wishes for the friendship between China and Australia.
The first two pieces of music are adapted from ancient Chinese classic stories. The opening track "Farewell My Concubine" cleverly integrates Peking Opera and symphony from a new perspective and form, and passionately tells the legendary love story of the Overlord of Western Chu and Yu Ji. The young singer Chen Junhua used a sad and moving Peking Opera aria to perfectly interpret the tragic and pathos feelings of "the beauty is gone when the country is gone", which mesmerized the audience. When the song ended, warm applause and cheers erupted in the concert hall.
The second track is the well-known violin concerto "Butterfly Lovers" in China. This piece is hailed as a model of combining Chinese and Western styles. It expresses people's yearning for and praise of loyal love in the world, and embodies the idea that "one cannot *live" during one's lifetime. The unique Chinese romantic spirit of "falling into a tent and becoming a pair in heaven after death".
The violin soloist for "Butterfly Lovers" that night was Lu Siqing. As the first Asian to win the gold medal at the Paganini International Violin Competition in Italy, Lu Siqing is undoubtedly the most active and outstanding Chinese violinist in today's music scene. One of the best performers of "Butterfly Lovers".
When the last note of "Butterfly Lovers" gradually disappeared into the air of the concert hall, the audience applauded, cheered, and cheered for a long time. Lu Siqing had to return again and again to bow to the enthusiastic audience and perform an additional song.
Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony is often the first choice for world-class symphony orchestras to showcase their virtuosity and deep emotion. As the last work of this special performance, the musicians of the China National Symphony Orchestra presented the extreme melancholy and extreme excitement, depressed resignation and optimistic progress contained in the work to the Australian audience with their superb performance. At the end of the song, there was thunderous applause in the hall. Conductor Li Xincao and all the staff paid tribute to the audience again and again, and performed an additional song "Good Night" to express their best wishes for the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Australia.