Qigang Chen (1951)

La joie de la souffrance (2017)

for violin and orchestra

  • General information
    • Composition date: 2017
    • Duration: 24 mn
    • Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
    • Commission: BMF Music Festival, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Issa Stern International Violin Competition, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse et le New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Detailed formation
  • soloist: violin
  • 3 flutes (also piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets (also A clarinet, bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (also contrabassoon), 4 horns, 2 trumpets, trumpet [en sib] , 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, 4 percussionists, piano, harp, strings

Premiere information

  • Date: October 2017
    Location:

    Chine, Beijing, Bejing Music Festival


    Performers:

    Maxim Vengerov, violon ; China Philharmonic ; Yu Long, direction