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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. 

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. 

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

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

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

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. 

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.

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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

A rich and varied showcase of Singapore music at Singapore Symphony Orchestra's annual National Day Concert.

Fiery Beethoven from Han-Na Chang and full-blooded Grieg from Churen Li light up the season opener in Singapore.

Rossini, Mozart and a rare symphony by Kalliwoda display programming diversity that is both interesting and sophisticated. 

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

Cédric Tiberghien and Carlos Kalmar dispel the gloom with performances to delight the ear. 

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

Gábor Káli and pianist Dénes Várjon appear with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for a last hurrah before another pandemic shutdown.

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

Darrell Ang and members of the Singapore Symphony deliver a crystalline Mother Goose Suite and a high-spirited, straight-from-the-orchestra-pit Ibert Divertissement.

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

From two dreamy idylls to the agitated world of Shostakovich, a fine online programme from Kahchun Wong and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in the Esplanade Concert Hall.

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

Smile, because there's light at the end of the tunnel, illuminated by Andrew Litton, Philippe Quint and the Singapore Symphony.

Tasmin Little's farewell tour yields memorable Bruch in Singapore, with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra led by Gerard Schwarz.

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

Haochen Zhang, Thomas Dausgaard and the Singapore Symphony impress in Mozart and Bruckner.

An all-Elgar affair by the SSO directed by its Principal Guest Conductor Andrew Litton was not so much a distant memory of colonialism but rather an exercise in nostalgia.

Gautier Capuçon is the soloist in a fine reading of Robert Schumann's Cello Concerto, where sheer outward display gave way to more musical values.

Singapore’s amazing Orchestra of the Music Makers presents Mahler’s “Gift to the Entire Nation,” his massive Eighth Symphony, as part of the celebrations marking the country’s 50th anniversary as an independent state.