The ‘Living With Young Composers’ series at The Arts House of 2011 and 2012 have gained so much success that the composers at the core of it have decided to band together (no pun intended) with a theme for this year’s concert. Plink, Plonk, Plunk catches up with De Silva…
Romantic Masterpieces – A Concert Preview
0It is a rather rare occurrence when one comes across the words “performer” and “academic” used to describe a single person. Adding another description of “virtuoso” contradicts the blend even more; virtuosos are rarely academics and vice versa, because there are seemingly too few hours in a day to be…
The Philharmonic Orchestra – New Year’s Eve Gala Concert 2013
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Following the resounding success of last year’s New Year’s Eve gala concert, The Philharmonic Orchestra are at it again, holding yet another gala concert to usher in 2013. Part of the fun, I highly suspect, is trying to time the programme so well such that the loudest, noisiest bit of…
5 Questions with Lim Yan (Part II)
0The mid-week concert featuring Lim Yan playing Beethoven’s third and fourth concertos accompanied by The Philharmonic Orchestra was quite incredible. Showing no signs of tiring, Yan tackled the two concertos with nimbleness and grace, bringing his own imagination into a performance that radiated with warmth and heartfelt tenderness, especially in…
5 Questions with Lim Yan (Part I)
0The SotA (School of the Arts) concert hall was abuzz with activity last friday evening, where pianists, musicians, and fans of Beethoven gathered to watch local pianist Lim Yan perform the first and last piano concertos of Beethoven. This concert is the first part of a (rather ambitions!) three-concert series…
The Philharmonic Orchestra – Lim Yan Plays the Complete Beethoven Piano Concertos
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“I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.” – Jascha Heifetz Many can boast of having played a Beethoven piano concerto, and but few can perform all five,…
The Music, Our Works – An evening of New Music
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, an order between man and time. – Igor Stravinsky Five local composers unite to present an evening of their original compositions at The Arts House. This concert showcases their common past as…
Yuri Bashmet & the Moscow Soloists
0“The viola is commonly (with rare exceptions) played by infirm violinists, or by decrepit players of wind instruments who happen to have been acquainted with a string instrument once upon a time.” Richard Wagner, in 1869, quoted in Gattey Peacocks on the Podium (1982) Violists have long been considered to be second-class…
Dissonance…
0…is attending a concert of Medieval vocal music one evening, and attending a Japanese rock band concert on the next evening. The Hilliard Ensemble will be doing a two-part concert on the 27th of April at the Esplanade Concert Hall, with the first part featuring music by Estonian composer Arvo…
Introducing… The BLCMB!
0Yesterday I received an email from a fellow music critic, composer and blogger half the world away, introducing himself as Colin Eatock. He has compiled a huge and very extensive list of classical music blogs and websites from all around the world, and put it here. It has a rather…