Largely finished in the West, the conducting career of Charles Dutoit has taken off in China ever since, who appeared last night at the Xinghai Concert Hall conducting a programme of Ravel, Prokofiev and Mendelssohn with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra.

He was joined by Paloma So, the 20-year-old Harvard student in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1.

The same programme with be repeated in ten days in Beijing when Charles will conduct the China Philharmonic Orchestra with Paloma as the soloist.

The large fanbase of the conductor in China can be best illustrated in the uninterrupted reel capturing the curtain call at the Xinghai Concert Hall after the concert last night.

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