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

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.

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

“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.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Chief Conductor

[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.

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

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.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Darrell Ang, conductor

[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.

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

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.

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

[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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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