A Mahler Resurrection to remember in Singapore

Hans Graf conducts the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Youth Choir and Symphonia Choralis

By Chang Tou Liang, 26 May 2025

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“Maria Bengtsson’s pristine soprano wafting ethereally above a group of 16 sopranos”

Reviewed at Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore on 24 May 2025

Mahler, Symphony no. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"

Maria Bengtsson, Soprano

Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano

Singapore Symphony Chorus

Singapore Symphony Youth Choir

Symphonia Choralis

Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Hans Graf, Conductor

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Chang Tou Liang, 14th November

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

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Rudolf Buchbinder completes Singapore Beethoven concerto cycle

Chang Tou Liang, 23rd October

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

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Maurice Ravel and Dame Ethel Smyth works premiere in Singapore

Chang Tou Liang, 11th April

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.

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Singapore Symphony’s game of two halves

Chang Tou Liang, 25th October

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

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Spirit of the Proms gloriously alive in Singapore

Chang Tou Liang, 2nd September

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

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Kozłowski's long lost Requiem arrives in Singapore

Chang Tou Liang, 7th April

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.

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Chang Tou Liang

Chang Tou Liang, a native of Singapore, is a family physician by profession. Actively following the classical music scene in Singapore since 1979, he has been a music reviewer of The Straits Times from 1997, contributing over 2300 articles to the national daily. He was also editor of several local musical newsletters and served as Artistic Director of the Singapore International Piano Festival from 2004 to 2008. His blog Pianomania has covered international piano competitions and musical events in four continents. He has a keen interest in travelling, street food and cat photography.