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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.

Rarely-heard Stravinsky piano concertos are coupled with Mozart symphonies with Hans Graf, Alexei Volodin and the Singapore Symphony. 

An unusually fresh reading of the Pastoral Symphony complemented a world premiere by Singaporean composer Zechariah Go and an exuberant performance of Shostakovich's Second Violin Concerto.

Hans Graf and He Ziyu impress in all-Beethoven evening with the Singapore Symphony in the Esplanade Concert Hall.

Well-honed Mozart from Mutter protégée, but Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite steals the show in Singapore. 

Hans Graf conducts Paul von Klenau's Eighth Symphony, while Bomsori Kim becomes the first overseas soloist to perform with the SSO in over a year.

As Singapore emerges from Covid circuit breaker, witty and ebullient Mozart is served by Hans Graf and Albert Tiu.

Young violinist Chloe Chua distinguishes in Mozart, almost stealing the show from Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven

A warm, accomplished Metamorphosen needing a notch or two more anguish, followed by precision in Mozart's Gran Partita.

Hans Graf conducts four works which showcase the strings, then the winds and brass, of the SSO. 

It's the beginning of a new era of Singapore Symphony Orchestra history with Hans Graf at the helm offering an impressive performance.

A declamatory Bruckner Te Deum made up for a less exciting first half of Barry and Mahler. 

Pinchas Zukerman celebrated the 45th anniversary of his Cleveland Orchestra debut with Mozart’s “Turkish” concerto.

A magnificent account of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony redeems a unique, if uneven program.

Hans Graf conducts the Houston Sympony and proves even a line-up of symphonic favorites can be foiled by a tepid tempo.

  Sibelius’s Violin Concerto and Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony play to an enthusiastic Cleveland audience on a beautiful evening at the Blossom Festival.

The inter-war years produced some of the most dynamic and popular choral works that have been composed since the 18th century. Tonight’s London Philharmonic Orchestra concert, conducted by Hans Graf, combined two very different results of this flowering. Both masterpieces in their own way, they unexpectedly complemented each other and made for an entertaining concert.

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra have had a couple of high-profile guest performers in town for their most recent series of concerts. They presented works by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky, a piano concerto and a symphony respectively, in a program that, although disastrously designed, was redeemed by some stellar playing.

In memory of violist Coen van der Heide who passed away earlier in October, the Rotterdam Philharmonic opened with the second part of Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, which was deeply moving and followed by a minute of silence. Ottorino Respighi’s Fontana di Roma was the first piece on the official program.

Das Experiment „Wiener Rosenkavalier II“ ist dank Josef Ernst Köpplingers Erfolgsinszenierung definitiv geglückt.

El pasado martes la Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi ofreció un concierto, en el Baluarte de Pamplona, que tuvo como denominador común la escala en do mayor. La dirección de Hans Graf fue lo que dio un toque especial a la ejecución de las piezas escogidas de Beethoven, Stravinsky y Schumann.

Die Volksoper landet mit Richard Strauss' selten gespieltem Einakter Feuersnot einen Überraschungserfolg – eine Empfehlung für alle Freunde der Musik des Jubilars.