Stephen Moss kicked off today's Guardian China arts special with his account of a week spent in search of the country's music - all the way from Mongolian boybands to pipa experts, wannabe volin virtuosi to several hundred of China's many, many (an estimated 20 million) piano students.
He also took the opportunity to get inside the mysterious Forbidden City to hear a concert with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, and recorded some of the things he heard - and we've uploaded them to the site so you can too. There are four tracks, all quite short.
• An orchestral version of a folksong from the Shaanxi region • An excerpt from one of the eight "model operas" written during the Cultural Revolution • Lu Siqing (violin) playing an abridged version of The Butterfly Lovers concerto • A specially commissioned piece called Hurrah for the Olympics! by Zhang Chao
