A partnership that tunes into young talent

Orchestras show close ties at festival as both nourish music's future stars, Zhang Kun reports in Shanghai.

Music in the Summer Air, an annual festival hosted by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, opened on July 1 with a concert by the New York Philharmonic.

The American ensemble played under the baton of Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen a series of French compositions such as Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, Claude Debussy's La Mer (The Sea), and Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

For the second full-orchestra concert on Wednesday, the New York Philharmonic and Salonen joined hands with French pianist Alexandre Kantorow, winner of the Gold Medal and Grand Prix at the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition, to present Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 and Symphony No 3.