The Lue Jia / NCPA Bruckner cycle
The performers are Lue Jia and the National Center for the Performing Arts Center Orchestra (NCPA). The CDs are being released on the NCPA label. Below are the individual CD numbers for the recordings in the order in which they have been released: Bruckner Symphony No. 9 NCPA Classics 81620134-1 Bruckner Symphony No. 3 NCPA Classics 81620164-1 Bruckner Symphony No. 7 NCPA Classics 81620168-1 Bruckner Symphony No. 8 NCPA Classics 81620187-1 Bruckner Symphony No. 2 NCPA Classics 81620196-1 Bruckner Symphony No. 1 NCPA Classics 81620201-1 Bruckner Symphony No. 6 NCPA Classics 81620208-1 Bruckner Symphony No. 5 NCPA Classics 81620219-1 Bruckner Symphony No. 4 NCPA Classics 81620220-1 At present, the only way to order the recordings is via import: NO.1 https://sunrisemusic.com.hk/en/product_detail.php?pid=3727 NO.2 https://sunrisemusic.com.hk/en/product_detail.php?pid=3645 NO.3 https://sunrisemusic.com.hk/en/product_detail.php?pid=3509 NO.6 https://sunrisemusic.com.hk/en/product_detail.php?pid=3765 NO.7 https://sunrisemusic.com.hk/en/product_detail.php?pid=3518 NO.8 https://sunrisemusic.com.hk/en/product_detail.php?pid=3574 NO.9 https://sunrisemusic.com.hk/en/product_detail.php?pid=3511 Japanese retail outlets are showing them as well, but the release date in Japan is January 31st. They are also on music streaming platforms such as Apple Music and Spotify. If any distribution is announced, I will inform you. I may also do a special order by request only. Here is some information on the conductor: Lü Jia is Artistic Director of Music of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Music Director of China NCPA Orchestra, prior to which he has acted as Music Director of the Verona Opera House, Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz De Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director & Chief Conductor at the Macao Orchestra and Trieste Opera. Lü Jia has conducted nearly 2000 orchestral concerts and opera performances in Europe and the United States. He has worked with such renowned opera houses and symphony orchestras as: La Scala, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Munich Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’ Accademia di Santa Cecilia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Lyon National Orchestra, and many others. A highly acclaimed opera conductor, Lü has led over fifty productions so far internationally. As the first Asian conductor appointed as Music Director in a national opera house of Italy, he has been praised by critics as “a conductor who has a deeper understanding of Italian operas than the Italians themselves do.” In 1989, he was awarded both the First Prize and Jury’s Prize at the Antonio Pedeotti International Conducting Competition in Trento, Italy. In 2007, the Italian President bestowed the “President's Prize” on Lü for his exceptional contribution to Italian culture. That same year, the production of La gazza ladra that he conducted at the Rossini Opera Festival, held in Pesaro, the composer's hometown, was voted “Opera Production of the Year” in Europe. Here is some information about the orchestra: The China NCPA Orchestra is the resident orchestra of NCPA, whose musical director is Lu Jia. The Orchestra has become a national benchmark of the highest standard in the pit, and to date it has played in over 60 operatic productions for NCPA. On the orchestral side, it programmes and presents performances in a full-year season, impressing the audience with their unique vitality. The Orchestra has cooperated with world-renowned maestros and artists including Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung, Lang Lang, Wang Jian, and Kyung-Wha Chung, among others. Hailed as “a brilliant and first-class orchestra”, it has toured the United States, Canada, Germany, Korea, Singapore, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates, to name a few. |
