TPO is proud to have appointed Maestro Myung-Whun Chung, who has been conducting TPO since 2001, as Honorary Music Director, Maestro Andrea Battistoni as Chief Conductor and Maestro Mikhail Pletnev as Special Guest Conductor.

With about 130 musicians, TPO performs both symphonies and operas regularly. In 2011, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra celebrated its 100th anniversary as Japan’s first symphony orchestra. With a warm and colourful performance of the well-known violin concerto Butterfly Lovers and a very intense and exciting interpretation of Shen Ye’s fascinating concerto The Psalms of Taciturnity this new release is well worth listening. Zhi-Jong Wang – she made her solo debut at the age of 14 with Orchestre national de Lille under Sir Yehudi Menuhin – proves once more an accomplished violinist. Recorded at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, August 2018 all over the world and this is the world premiere recording of his 1 stViolin Concerto „The Psalms of Taciturnity“. His works are performed all over in Asia, the U.S.

SHEN Ye, teaching Composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music is one of the most fascinating representatives of contemporary Music in China setting accessible Chinese culture to his own musical language. Borne of an uneasy union of revolutionary nationalist sentiment and Chinese urban cosmopolitanism, the musical progeny manages to be faithful to both its parents. A work of undeniable emotional appeal, it also carries with it a history that some of its biggest supporters are still struggling to digest. Though universally recognized among the Chinese people, the piece remains largely unknown in the West. Hailed at its premiere as “a breakthrough in China’s symphonic music,” HE Zhanhao and CHEN Gang’s “Butterfly Lovers” Violin Concerto was later reviled during the Cultural Revolution for its Western influence and feudal Chinese inspiration.

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