Brahms with Hans Graf and Sayaka Shoji

The noble strains of Brahms’s music encompass this entire programme conducted by SSO Music Director Hans Graf. Passion and angst rule his Tragic Overture while calm winds of grace flow through his Serenade in A major. Brahms’s popular Violin Concerto takes the limelight in the second half, starring the acclaimed violinist Sayaka Shoji, the first Japanese and youngest-ever winner of the Paganini Competition in 1999.