CAO, PENG

Cao Peng

Cao Peng is one of the most distinguished conductors in China. He was born in Jiangyin, Jiangsu in 1925. In 1946, he entered the Arts Department of Shandong University. In 1950 he was principal conductor of both the Shanghai Film Studio Orchestra and the Beijing Film Studio Orchestra. In 1955, he went to Russia to study at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the celebrated conductor Leo Ginsberg. Cao Peng was appointed resident conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra after his return in 1961. He is now artistic director and principal conductor of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, artistic director of the Marco Polo Symphony Orchestra, music advisor and resident conductor of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and music director and principal conductor of the Shanghai Chamber Orchestra.

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CHEN / HE: Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (The) / A Ke: Violin Concerto	8.223960
CHEN / HE: Butterfly Lovers Zheng Concerto (The) / Eternal Regret of Lin'An	82078
CHINA Chinese Songs and Dances, Vol. 1	82015
CHINA Chinese Songs and Dances, Vol. 2	82016
CHINA Chinese Songs and Dances, Vol. 3	82017
CHINA Liu Ying: Suona Master	8.225924
CHINA Qin Classics	8.828010
CHINA Suona Classics	8.828009
Dreaming of My Motherland - Vera Tsui	8.225906
EVERLASTING CHINESE FOLKSONGS	82100
HE / DING / HUANG: Chinese Orchestral Works	8.223956
HE: Buffalo Boy's Bamboo Flute	82082
HUANG, Y.: Fair Flowers Under Full Moon / North Anhui Suite / Capriccio	82085
LESCHETIZKY: Piano Concerto / Contes de Jeunesse Suite	8.223803
LI, H.: Spring Festival Suite	82079
LIU, D.: Mountain Forest / WANG, M.: Haixia Suite / HUO, C.: Bengbeng Suite	82087
MA, K.: North Shaanxi Suite	82088
MA, S.: Symphony No. 2 / Song of the Mountain Forest	8.223950
Marco Polo Sampler (2 CDs)	MP-2000-1/2HDCD
Mu Guiying Taking Command	82075
NIE: Village Girl Beyond the Great Wall	82077
QU: Fantasia of the Red Guards on the Hong Lake	82076
RITZEN: Chinese Requiem / Chinese Violin Rhapsody	8.223980
RITZEN: Last Empress (The)	8.223969
SHI, F.: Nanyue King's Sorrow	82094
SHI, Y.: Symphony No. 1 / Horn Concerto, 'Memory'	82099
WANG, Y.: Pixiu Dance	82101
WANG, Y.: Symphony No. 2, "The War of Resistance Against Japan"	82090
XIAN: Ode to the Yellow River	82081
XU: Memories of the Past at Jinling	82097
YAN: The White-Haired Girl (Suite)	82080
ZHONG: Pictures of the Yangtze River	82098
ZHU, J.: Butterfly Fountain / Symphony No. 5	82089
ZHU, J.: Symphonic Fantasia / Symphony No. 4	8.223941
ZHU, J.: Symphony No. 1 / Festival Overture	8.223940
ZHU, J.: The Heroic Poems	82102