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…
Upcoming concerts – 3 x 3, Lim Yan
0It is sometimes good to be spoilt for choice, but in the case of this thursday evening, with two concerts put up by excellent local musicians, I’m wishing that they didn’t happen at the same time so I wouldn’t have to miss either. 3 x 3: Three Musicians. Three Masterworks….
Upcoming chamber music concerts
0Next week sees an exciting week of chamber music happening at the Esplanade Recital Studio, with a selection of rarely/never-heard quintets by Nordic composers, fusion jazz/anime/film music, and contemporary music. Plink, Plonk, Plunk picks: don’t miss out on these three concerts! 24 May 2015 – Take 5 Piano Quintet: Northern…
The Brahms Sonatas: a review
0‘Good Brahms is like char kway teow’, a friend once told me, ‘it is complex and has different layers, but too much of it when played the wrong way can make one sick of it’. Also, one of my benchmarks of good Brahms music would be whether or not the…
Bach Ahead by re:mix – A Review
0An edited version of this article appeared in the Straits Times on 20 May 2014 with the heading ‘Playful, spirited Bach’. BACH AHEADre:mix, Foo Say Ming, director/violin, Lim Yan, pianoEsplanade Recital Studio/Sunday 18 May 2014 For a group that is known for their rather adventurous and eclectic concert programmes, re:mix’s…
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
0“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,…