Approach SPO Chamber Series: Moonlight Romance

The first concert in the Shanghai Philharmonic's Approach SPO chamber series of the 2026-27 season, and an evening built almost entirely on arrangements: romantic miniatures written for a soloist or for piano, rescored here for winds and strings. The first half is four pieces in the same scoring, cello with wind sextet: Tchaikovsky's Nocturne, Glazunov's Chant du ménestrel, Fauré's Après un rêve and a Saint-Saëns Romance. The second half opens with Philippe Gaubert's Trois aquarelles for flute, cello and piano, the only work on the programme its composer wrote as chamber music in the first place, then Debussy's Clair de lune for flute and piano and his Petite Suite, CD 71, in a wind-quintet version, and ends with the third movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Quintet in B-flat for piano and winds. The players are the orchestra's principals: Wu Minzhe, cello; Zhou Shinan, flute; Xue Yi, oboe; Zhang Ao, clarinet; Chen Qu, bassoon; Xu Hui, horn; with Cao Yufan as guest pianist. The programme is subject to change on the night.

Soloist, Cello

Wu Minzhe

Soloist, Flute

Zhou Shinan

Soloist, Oboe

Xue Yi

Soloist, Clarinet

Zhang Ao

Soloist, Bassoon

Chen Qu

Soloist, Horn

Xu Hui

Soloist, Piano

Cao Yufan

Three price bands at ¥80 / 121 / 221, on sale. Tickets through the 演际 (LiveLife) WeChat mini-programme and Damai; box office line 62413689. Supported by the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation.