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

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“Bizet yet not Bizet, the familiar melodies fed through a series of prisms and distorting mirrors”
Reviewed at Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore on 27 August 2021
Mozart, Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major "Turkish", K219
Shchedrin, Carmen Suite
Ye-Eun Choi, Violin
Hans Graf, Conductor
Lintu, Kavakos and the SSO make the case for Shostakovich
*****
Eliahu Inbal enlivens the Singapore Symphony
****1
Takács-Nagy’s Schumann trumps Bach at the Singapore Symphony
****1
Pierre Bleuse and the Singapore Symphony raise the roof again
****1
World premiere of Jonathan Shin’s Piano Concerto a Singapore landmark
****1
Hannu Lintu shows Singapore great things to come with Mahler and Haydn
*****
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