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Sun-kissed idylls and sinewy Shostakovich in Singapore

By Mark Pullinger, 26 September 2020
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“the work’s urgent climax – cue that trumpet – was suitably ripe”
Reviewed at Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore on 26 September 2020
Programme
Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (arr. Benno Sachs)
Wagner, Siegfried Idyll
Shostakovich, Chamber Symphony in C minor (arr. Rudolf Barshai), Op.110a
Performers
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Kahchun Wong, Conductor
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.