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Wu Wei’s tour de force on the Chinese sheng in Singapore

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Reviewed at Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore on 9 February 2020
Huang Ruo, Concerto for Sheng, “The Colour Yellow”
Chong, Remembering the Old Fishing Village (World premiere)
Yan, Jin Diao
Liu, Dance of the Yao People
Liu, Dragon Dance
Zhang, Celebratory Harvest
Tinhua, Liang Xiao (Joyful Night)
Wu, The Sprite of Bamboo for Solo Sheng
Bach, Violin sonata no. 2 in A minor, BWV1003: Andante
Vivaldi, Trio Sonata in D minor Op.1 no. 12 RV 63 "La follia”
Traditional, Folk Song
Traditional, Pastoral
Works by Li
Bach, Air on a G String, from Orchestral Suite BWV1068
Wu Wei, Sheng
Joshua Tan, 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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