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Mozart is pitted against his ”fatal rival" Salieri in Hans Graf's farewell concert as Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. 

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Churen Li score in a landmark new Singaporean piano concerto by Jonathan Shin. 

Spanish violinist María Dueñas dazzles with poised, luminous Beethoven before the National Symphony Orchestra and Hans Graf tackle turbulent Prokofiev. 

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

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

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. 

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

Poetic and intelligent, violinist Stefan Jackiw shines in Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto while Hans Graf conducts a mighty Bruckner 7. 

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

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

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

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.