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The Singapore Symphony Orchestra's Music Director-designate made his mark conducting Mahler's Fourth Symphony and the Nelson Mass.

Love fills the air as two Carl Nielsen cantatas are premiered in Singapore under Michał Nesterowicz. 

At the threshold of seventy, Yo-Yo Ma still a box office dream, plays Dvořák with the Singapore Symphony. 

Singapore Symphony's President's Young Performers Concert lit up by a saxophonist, clarinettist and harpist. 

A discerning audience in Singapore witnesses absorbing playing and incisive finger-work from the Russian pianist. 

Leila Josefowicz’s clear and incisive tones sears through thickets of dissonance in Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, “To the Memory of an Angel”. 

Richard Strauss' An Alpine Symphony and Korngold's Violin Concerto make for a cinematic coupling in Singapore. 

Former Cliburn winner Vadym Kholodenko returns to Singapore in mesmerising and thrilling form.

Hans Graf's penultimate season as Music Director ends with a performance of Mahler's epic Resurrection Symphony. 

Rodolfo Barráez conducts two Mozart symphonies and Singapore Symphony principal clarinettist Ma Yue plays a rarely heard concerto by Gerald Finzi. 

Hans Graf conducts Debussy's Images to close a gala concert featuring the Singapore debut of the great Russian pianist. 

Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé and a prelude from Dame Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers are heard for the first time in Singapore. 

Kahchun Wong returns to Singapore, displaying definite ideas about Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, despite its ambivalence and seemingly open-ended message. 

Dukas, Barber, Hindemith and Shchedrin in an intriguing 20th-century programme from the Singapore Symphony. 

Singapore Symphony's first concert of 2005 distinguished by Yu-Chien Benny Tseng and Julian Kuerti.

Mario Venzago and Steven Isserlis share an unusual programme of Kabalevsky and Schubert at the Victoria Concert Hall. 

What do Tchaikovsky, de Falla and Beethoven have in common? Nothing, but Vasily Petrenko and the Singapore Symphony thrill. 

Singapore Symphony Children's and Youth Choirs are led by Stephen Layton in music by Britten, Rautavaara and Vivaldi, heralding a blessed Christmas season.

Another all-Beethoven concert? But was this the Singapore Symphony's best in our writer’s 45 years of concert-going?

Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto make an odd couple in Singapore.

Hélène Grimaud's Singapore recital sonorously unites Hans von Bülow’s “three Bs of music” – Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. 

The Singapore Symphony's annual presidential concert is distinguished by two prodigious piano talents, Toby Tan and Adrian Tang. 

Sayaka Shoji performs Brahms' popular Violin Concerto with the Singapore Symphony and Hans Graf. 

Xavier de Maistre gives the Singapore premiere of Ginastera's Harp Concerto, while Pierre Bleuse conducts two of Respighi's Roman trilogy. 

Pavel Haas Quartet makes a triumphant Singapore debut with all-Bohemian programme of Suk, Smetana and Janáček.

Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky are welcome in Singapore, sumptuously served up by Benjamin Schmid and Hans Graf.

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider appears both as soloist and conductor on his first appearance with the Singapore Symphony since 1997. 

After a hiatus of five years, Singapore Symphony's Conductor Laureate Lan Shui returns for a poignant Mahler 1. 

On its 50th anniversary concert tour, the Hong Kong Philharmonic pulls out all stops in Singapore, joined by star French pianist Alexandre Kantorow. 

Rachmaninov can sometimes be polarising, as heard in this second concert in tribute to the composer's 150th anniversary. 

Rachmaninov's anniversary as celebrated by the Singapore Symphony proves a case of better late than never. 

Echt-Viennese Beethoven interpreter Rudolf Buchbinder enthrals the Singapore audience.

The victor at the 2021 Chopin International Piano Competition is predictably brilliant in his Singapore Symphony Orchestra debut.

American composer Robert Russell Bennett's Violin Concerto gets a new lease of life in Singapore.

Hans Graf and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's evening of Richard Strauss showcases the German Romantic's enormous emotional range.

Some 37 years after his Singapore debut, the cellist revisits Saint-Saëns' First Cello Concerto with the Singapore Symphony and Han-Na Chang. 

Mario Venzago conducts a rare chance to hear Ralph Vaughan Williams' choral setting of Walt Whitman, Toward the Unknown Region. 

Singapore's historic Victoria Concert Hall has become the home of convincing Mozart and Haydn symphony performances.

Short-lived early Romantics – Weber, Chopin and Schubert – are showcased in an enjoyable concert from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Hans Graf leads a compelling Ein Heldenleben in Singapore, with young soloists shining in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard's debut at the Singapore International Piano Festival is built upon an intriguing programme of piano miniatures, from Beethoven to Ligeti.

Ziyu He makes light of the fiendish difficulties in Stravinsky's Violin Concerto at the Esplanade Concert Hall. 

Polish composer and Mozart contemporary Józef Kozłowski’s Requiem has long been abandoned, but its Asian premiere gives it a deserved new lease of life.

There's no place like home for Singaporean conductor Kahchun Wong, where he is a musical celebrity. 

Three of Franz Schubert's sonatas are delivered with unvarnished passion by the British pianist in Victoria Concert Hall. 

An unusual but inspired programme of Riisager, Gershwin and Korngold finds a very receptive audience in Singapore. 

South Korean soprano Sumi Hwang's Mahler, Richard Strauss and Brahms from Hans Graf are musical and geographical synergy in Singapore, heralding the Lunar New Year. 

Singapore Symphony Artist-in-Residence Chloe Chua's Mozart delights once more in a delicious programme which includes Debussy and Bizet.

Krystian Zimerman, in the dual role of pianist and conductor, has orchestra and audience eating from his hands in Singapore.

French music, Mozart and Schumann make effective bedfellows in a concert presented as part of the Voilah! France Singapore Festival.