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The Relevant Tones team travels to Shanghai for New Music Week, a  relatively new but impressive festival held by the oldest conservatory  of music in China. This first in a four-part series features the music  of Chinese composers featured at the festival.

Hosted by Seth Boustead

Produced by Jesse McQuarters

Wen Deqing: The Glamor of Shanghai Concerto (excerpt)

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra/Gottfried Rabl; Qin Li-Wei, vc.

Chen Musheng – Morning Rays on the Sea (excerpt)

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra/ Rabl; Yunggie Ma, voice

Wen Deqing: The Sound Shining

Ensemble Intercontemporain/Beat Furrer; Lu Yiwen, erhu

Jia Daqun: The Prospect of Colored Desert

Ensemble Offspring/Roland Peelman

Ye Guohui: Beijing Opera Silhouettes

Ensemble Offspring/Peelman

Lu Pei: Rhythm of Shanghai (excerpt)

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra/Gottfried Rabl; Jiang Hanchao, saxophone