World First Performance of Wang Xilins violin concerto, after it had been forbidden by the authorities for six years! Egidius Streiff returns to Beijing after he was told "the orchestra's on holiday" when he arrived for the first performance in 2001. Recorded in the Beijing Zongshan Hall besides the forbidden city. This is an excerpt of the first part, where the violin tries to oppose the very serious and hard orchestral marches with a jester-like personality that draws on folk tunes of rural Shanxi opera.