China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra is four years old and on tour. The Maison symphonique was their last stop after six cities in Canada and in the U.S., and there were notes of both celebration and relief in their youthful performances of established Chinese classical composers Chen Qigang, Cheng Gang and He Zhanhao and Dvo?ák.
Though the program was presented as “eclectic,” all three pieces were episodic, romantic and played with exuberant vitality.