Musings of an Artiste Esplanade Recital Studio 12 November 2015, 1930hrs With such a title as ‘Musings of an Artiste’ and a poster with a dark background showing the artiste deep in thought (musing, presumably), one almost expects the repertoire to be big, heavy works of the 19th-century, where artist(e)s…
War and Peace: Singapore International Festival of Music
3The inaugural Singapore International Festival of Music, brainchild of conductor Darrell Ang and violinist Loh Jun Hong, opened last Saturday with a concert themed after the festival theme ‘War and Peace’. Comprising mostly luminaries in the classical scene, musicians, composers, and patrons of the arts, the half-filled Chamber had good…
Stringing Generations – A review
2An edited version of this review will be published in The Straits Times on 27th Jan 2015. Stringing Generations Chamber.Sounds Esplanade Recital Studio 25 Jan 2015 As the nation celebrates its jubilee year and the pioneer generation with the SG50 events, the classical music world also celebrates one of…
Living with Brandon Voo: Asian Arpeggione and Romantic Rachmaninoff
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Living with Brandon Voo Brandon Voo, cello, Lin Xiu Min, piano Living Room at The Arts House Monday, 1 Dec 2014 Titled ‘Asian Arpeggione and Romantic Rachmaninoff’, the programme consisted of Schubert’s Sonata in A Minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D821, and Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19,…
VCH Chamber Series: Stephen Hough in Recital – a review
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It was on the 5th of January last year that I went to watch Stephen Hough play a programme of Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, and a work of his own at a church in Harrogate. Christmas and the New Year had come and gone, but our university had remained shut, leaving…
PLAY! by More than Music – a review
0An edited version of this article was published in The Straits Times with the title ‘Classical music reaching out’. PLAY! by More than Music Loh Jun Hong and Gabriel Ng, violin, Abigail Sin, piano Esplanade Recital StudioTuesday More than Music’s approach of making classical music more accessible to public seems…
Listen to the 20th Century: Early Modernism and the Jazz Age – a review
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An edited version of this review was published in The Straits Times on 5 September 2014. Listen to the 20th Century: Early Modernism and the Jazz Age Southbank Centre/ London Sinfonietta/ YST Orchestra SOTA Concert HallWednesday 3 September 2014 It is ironic that while the Singapore Symphony Orchestra just played…
What’s On Your Mind? – A review
0An edited version of this review will be published in The Straits Times on 4 September 2014. What’s On Your Mind?Jasper Goh, flute, Tommy Peh, pianoEsplanade Recital StudioTuesday Natalie Ng Glancing at the highly ambitious programme for the concert, one wondered if it was a flute recital accompanied by piano…
The Philharmonic Chamber Choir presents The Bird of Time – A review
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The Bird of TimeThe Philharmonic Chamber ChoirVictoria Concert HallLast Sunday The Philharmonic Chamber Choir, led by Lim Yau, marked their 20th anniversary with a concert in Victoria Concert Hall on Sunday, in what was probably the first choral concert since the opening of the hall after a 4-year-long refurbishment. The…
Chamber.Sounds presents New Chamber Operas – A Review
0An edited version of this review was published in The Straits Times on 28th August 2014 with the title ‘Sweet Sounds of Chamber Operas’. New Chamber Operas Chamber.Sounds Esplanade Recital Studio Last Tuesday Local contemporary ensemble Chamber.Sounds had their beginnings in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2005, and have…