SSO announces three months of newly-recorded online concerts featuring Chief Conductor Hans Graf conducting a larger SSO and soloists Chloe Chua and Ng Pei-Sian

SSO announces three months of newly-recorded online concerts featuring Chief Conductor Hans Graf conducting a larger SSO and soloists Chloe Chua and Ng Pei-Sian

SSO announces three months of newly-recorded online concerts featuring Chief Conductor Hans Graf conducting a larger SSO and soloists Chloe Chua and Ng Pei-Sian

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Tue, 13 Oct 2020

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The Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s digital season SSOPlayOn! continues with a trio of online concerts led by its new Chief Conductor, Hans Graf, taking place in November, December and January and streamed on SISTIC Live.

On Friday 6 November at 8pm, Hans Graf directs the SSO in a programme pairing Metamorphosen, Richard Strauss’s monumental work for strings, with Mozart’s “Gran Partita” Serenade.

The following month, on Friday 4 December, Hans Graf conducts an online performance of Beethoven’s Third Symphony – in the composer’s 250th anniversary year – in a programme which also sees young Singapore star violinist Chloe Chua perform Mozart’s Second Violin Concerto.

The Beethoven250 celebrations continue on 8 January, when the SSO’s Chief Conductor is on the podium for the Seventh Symphony, paired in this programme with Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1, performed by SSO’s Principal Cello, Ng Pei-Sian.

Alongside these concerts, the SSO will be holding online concerts on SISTIC Live every fortnight, including, on 20 November, An Evening of French Music, in which Darrell Ang conducts works by Debussy, Ravel and Ibert. This performance is in association with the vOilah! France Singapore Festival 2020 and is supported by BNP Paribas.

On Friday 18 December, the SSO joins forces with the Singapore Symphony Chorus, Youth Choir and Children's Choir, to mark the holiday season with a special online edition of its traditional Christmas Concert. There’ll be music by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, alongside contemporary carols by John Rutter and other festive favourites.

VCHpresents: Organ also moves online for the first time with a three-concert series, ‘Calamity and Calm’, exploring music written for consolation on 28 October, 11 & 25 November – to be streamed for free on the SSO’s Facebook page at 12.30pm. This series is a collaboration with the Singapore Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and features local organists Evelyn Lim, Anne Maria Lim, Isaac Lee and Phoon Yu, who will perform works by the likes of Hubert Parry, J.S. Bach and Brahms. The series also includes the premiere of the first organ work by Syafiqah Adha Sallehin, We Believe All in One God. On 9 December at 12.30pm, organist Koh Jia Hwei, violinist Lee Shi Mei and cellist Lin Juan perform works by Mendelssohn and Rheinberger in a VCHpresents: Organ concert, ‘With Strings Attached’ to be streamed on the SSO Facebook page.

On 22 January, the VCHpresents: Chamber season continues with musicians of the SSO playing a pair of string quartets by Mozart and Beethoven in a ticketed concert to be streamed on SISTIC Live

Tickets for all Nov-Jan concerts go on sale on 14 October at 10am and start at $10, on a pay-as-you-wish basis, with a special $5 early-bird rate available from 10am on 14 Oct until 9.59am on 16 Oct. All SSO ticketed online concerts are streamed on SISTIC Live and are available to watch for two weeks after the online premiere.

The following SSO live concerts are cancelled:

  • Beethoven’s Ode to Joy – 6 & 7 Nov
  • Beethoven’s Fate: Neeme Järvi & Sergei Nakariakov – 13 & 14 Nov
  • Lise de la Salle Plays Gershwin – 19 Nov
  • Concerts for Children: A Musical Tumble Through Time – 28 & 29 Nov ‘
  • Volodin Plays Schumann – 3 Dec
  • Tribute to Bill Evans – 11 & 12 Dec
  • SSO Christmas Concert at the Esplanade – 18 & 19 Dec
  • SSO Christmas Matinee for Children – 19 December
  • Krystian Zimerman: Beethoven Piano Concertos – 9, 15 & 16 January
  • Evelina Dobračeva Sings Four Last Songs – 22 January
  • Janine Jansen Plays Brahms – 4 February
Calamity and Calm - The Music of Hope (Online)
Season 2020/21 • VCHpresents: Organ

Calamity and Calm - The Music of Hope (Online)

Evelyn Lim, organ / Phoon Yu, organ / Anne Maria Lim, organ / Haslina Hassan, presenter

Wed / 28 Oct 20 / 12.30pm

Facebook & YouTube

This free performance will premiere on 28 October, 12.30pm on the VCHpresents and SSO Facebook pages, SSO YouTube page.

People throughout the centuries have confronted plague, war and disasters. Musicians – including organists – have been there portraying the sorrows of the masses and comforting them. Through music, entire generations and populations have expressed their grief, desires and hopes in times of trials and crises.

Click here to find out more about Victoria Concert Hall’s Klais Organ.

Featuring

Evelyn Lim, organ / Phoon Yu, organ / Anne Maria Lim, organ / Haslina Hassan, presenter

Programme

Chorale Prelude on “Eventide”  

Hubert Parry

Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641

Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach)

Lamento op. 53, no. 1

Louis Vierne
Metamorphosen and Mozart with Hans Graf (Online)
Season 2020/21 • Subscription Concert

Metamorphosen and Mozart with Hans Graf (Online)

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Chief Conductor

Fri / 06 Nov 20 / 8.00pm

SISTIC Live [Online]

“The most perfect melodic shapes are found in Mozart”, said Richard Strauss of his famous 18th century predecessor. “Listen to the remarkable expansion of a Mozart melody.... You think it is coming to an end, but it goes farther, much farther.” Strauss’s Metamorphosen, “A Study for 23 Solo Strings” is a monument of beautiful, evolving sorrow, written near the end of the Second World War. Believed to be his personal elegy to the devastation of culture during the war, it is perhaps also a subtle reminder of the transformative power of art in a time of adversity.

FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 6 Nov 2020. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 20 Nov 2020, 8pm.

Featuring

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Chief Conductor

Programme

Metamorphosen for 23 strings

Richard Strauss (R. Strauss)

Serenade No. 10 in B-flat major, K.361 “Gran Partita”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mozart)
Calamity and Calm - The Music of Hope (Online)
Season 2020/21 • VCHpresents: Organ

Calamity and Calm - The Music of Hope (Online)

Anne Maria Lim, organ / Isaac Lee, organ / Phoon Yu, organ / Haslina Hassan, presenter

Wed / 11 Nov 20 / 12.30pm

Facebook & YouTube

[This free performance will premiere on 11 November, 12.30pm on the VCHpresents and SSO Facebook pages, SSO YouTube page.]

People throughout the centuries have confronted plague, war and disasters. Musicians – including organists – have been there portraying the sorrows of the masses and comforting them. Through music, entire generations and populations have expressed their grief, desires and hopes in times of trials and crises.

Click here to find out more about Victoria Concert Hall’s Klais Organ.

Featuring

Anne Maria Lim, organ / Isaac Lee, organ / Phoon Yu, organ / Haslina Hassan, presenter

Programme

Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639

Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach)

Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist 

Georg Böhm

Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 649

Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach)

Prière à Notre Dame from Suite Gothique

Léon Boëllmann (Boëllmann)
Divertissement: An Evening of French Music (Online)
Season 2020/21 • Subscription Concert

Divertissement: An Evening of French Music (Online)

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Darrell Ang, conductor

Fri / 20 Nov 20 / 8.00pm

SISTIC Live [Online]

Immerse yourself in an evening of French music, some of the most remarkable and delicate gems in the classical repertoire. Ibert’s sparkling Divertissement plays alongside Ravel’s exquisite miniatures from Mother Goose, under the gossamer twilight of Debussy’s unforgettable Clair de lune.

FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 20 Nov 2020. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 4 Dec 2020, 8pm.

Featuring

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Darrell Ang, conductor

Programme

Clair de lune (arr. Caplet)

Claude Debussy (Debussy)

Ma mère l’Oye (“Mother Goose”)

Maurice Ravel (Ravel)

Divertissement

Jacques Ibert (Ibert)
Calamity and Calm - The Music of Hope (Online)
Season 2020/21 • VCHpresents: Organ

Calamity and Calm - The Music of Hope (Online)

Anne Maria Lim, organ / Isaac Lee, organ / Evelyn Lim, organ / Phoon Yu, organ / Haslina Hassan, presenter

Wed / 25 Nov 20 / 12.30pm

Facebook & YouTube

[This free performance will premiere on 25 November, 12.30pm on the VCHpresents and SSO Facebook pages, SSO YouTube page.]

People throughout the centuries have confronted plague, war and disasters. Musicians – including organists – have been there portraying the sorrows of the masses and comforting them. Through music, entire generations and populations have expressed their grief, desires and hopes in times of trials and crises.

Click here to find out more about Victoria Concert Hall’s Klais Organ.

Featuring

Anne Maria Lim, organ / Isaac Lee, organ / Evelyn Lim, organ / Phoon Yu, organ / Haslina Hassan, presenter

Programme

Mors et Resurrectio from 3 Paraphrases grégoriennes, Op. 5, No. 1

Jean Langlais (Langlais)

We believe all in one God

Syafiqah ‘Adha Sallehin

Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 1100

Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach)

O Gott, du frommer Gott Op. 122, No. 7

Johannes Brahms (Brahms)

Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele, Op. 65, No. 5

KARG-ELERT

Voluntary in G Major, Op. 1

W. WALOND
A Little Mozart with Chloe Chua (Online)
Season 2020/21 • Subscription Concert

A Little Mozart with Chloe Chua (Online)

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Chief Conductor / Chloe Chua, violin

Fri / 04 Dec 20 / 8.00pm

SISTIC Live [Online]

Singapore’s winsome darling of the violin, Chloe Chua, stars in Mozart’s lyrical Violin Concerto No. 2, accompanied by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra with Chief Conductor Hans Graf. The second half of the programme features music of fiery impulse and all-consuming zeal: Beethoven’s unstoppable Seventh Symphony.

FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 4 Dec 2020. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 18 Dec 2020, 8pm.

Featuring

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Chief Conductor / Chloe Chua, violin

Programme

Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, K.211

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mozart)

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

Ludwig van Beethoven (Beethoven)
With Strings Attached (Online)
Season 2020/21 • VCHpresents: Organ

With Strings Attached (Online)

Koh Jia Hwei, organ / Lee Shi Mei, violin / Lin Juan, cello

Wed / 09 Dec 20 / 12.30pm

Facebook & YouTube

[This free performance will premiere on 9 December, 12.30pm on the VCHpresents and SSO Facebook pages, SSO YouTube page.]

Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) was a German organist and composer of the 19th century who is chiefly remembered for his fine and original work for organ - indeed, for such rare and beguiling combinations as organ, violin and cello - his Op. 149.

Click here to find out more about Victoria Concert Hall’s Klais Organ.

Featuring

Koh Jia Hwei, organ / Lee Shi Mei, violin / Lin Juan, cello

Programme

Andante with variations in D major

Felix Mendelssohn (Mendelssohn)

Suite for organ, violin and cello, Op. 149

Josef Rheinberger (Rheinberger)
SSO Christmas Concert (Online)
Season 2020/21 • Christmas Concert

SSO Christmas Concert (Online)

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, Associate Conductor / Kong Zhao Hui, violin / Singapore Symphony Choruses / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster / Ng Pei-Sian, master of ceremonies / Eric Wong, Video Creative Director

Fri / 18 Dec 20 / 8.00pm

SISTIC Live [Online]

Merry Christmas! 2020 has been a year of many unusual memories, but the SSO won’t let it pass without our annual musical gathering of yuletide cheer. Join us and the Singapore Symphony Choruses in our special year-end celebration, featuring Baroque classics by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi as well as contemporary Christmas carols by popular choral music composer John Rutter. The show is directed by our "Count On Me, Singapore" director, Eric Wong. We wish you musical joy, harmony and peace on Earth!

FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 18 Dec 2020. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 8 Jan 2021, 8pm.

Featuring

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, Associate Conductor / Kong Zhao Hui, violin / Singapore Symphony Choruses / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster / Ng Pei-Sian, master of ceremonies / Eric Wong, Video Creative Director

Programme

And the Glory of the Lord from Messiah*

Georg Frideric Handel (Handel)

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring from Cantata No. 147*

Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach)

Angel’s Carol*

John Rutter

I Wish You Christmas*

John Rutter

Sussex Carol (arr. Bradford)*

Traditional

We Wish You A Merry Christmas (arr. Rutter)*

Traditional

Aria (Air on the G String, arr. Stokowski)

Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach)

Carol of the Bells/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen^ (arr. M. Riley)

Traditional

A Christmas Dance “Sir Roger de Coverley”

Frank Bridge (Bridge)

Fantasia on Greensleeves

Ralph Vaughan Williams (Vaughan Williams)

Winter from The Four Seasons^

Antonio Vivaldi (Vivaldi)
Ng Pei-Sian Plays Shostakovich (Online)
Season 2020/21 • Subscription Concert

Ng Pei-Sian Plays Shostakovich (Online)

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Chief Conductor / Ng Pei-Sian, cello

Fri / 08 Jan 21 / 8.00pm

SISTIC Live [Online]

Singapore Symphony Principal Cello Ng Pei-Sian stars in Shostakovich’s supreme First Cello Concerto, a work of unrelenting edge-of-your-seat energy and awe-inspiring darkness. Join him and SSO Chief Conductor Hans Graf in this powerhouse programme that also includes Beethoven’s mighty “Heroic” Third Symphony.

FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 8 Jan 2021. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 22 Jan 2021, 8pm.

Featuring

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Chief Conductor / Ng Pei-Sian, cello

Programme

Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107

Dmitri Shostakovich (Shostakovich)

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 “Eroica”

Ludwig van Beethoven (Beethoven)
Mozart's Violet and Beethoven's Serioso (Online)
Season 2020/21 • VCHpresents: Chamber

Mozart's Violet and Beethoven's Serioso (Online)

Chan Yoong-Han, violin / Kong Xianlong, violin / , violin / Zhao Tian, violin / Marietta Ku, viola / Dandan Wang, viola / Jamshid Saydikarimov, cello

Fri / 22 Jan 21 / 8.00pm

SISTIC Live [Online]

Mozart reached new levels of refinement and finesse with his Prussian Quartets, written near the end of his life. Beethoven, as he did with the symphonic form, expanded the possibilities of the string quartet. It should never be performed in public, he said of his Serioso Quartet, but only for a small circle of connoisseurs. It was too cutting-edge for its time. But today, 250 years after his birth, it is a startling example of his genius.

FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 22 Jan 2021. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 5 Feb 2021, 8pm.

Featuring

Chan Yoong-Han, violin / Kong Xianlong, violin / , violin / Zhao Tian, violin / Marietta Ku, viola / Dandan Wang, viola / Jamshid Saydikarimov, cello

Programme

String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K.575 “The Violet”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mozart)

String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 “Serioso”

Ludwig van Beethoven (Beethoven)

For press enquiries, please contact:
Elizabeth Davis
T +65 6602 4239
elizabeth.davis@sso.org.sg

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