VCHpresents: Love And Longing; French Connections
VCHPRESENTS: LOVE AND LONGING; FRENCH CONNECTIONS
The rising star Chinese tenor Long Long will be joining pianist Tengku Irfan for a delightful programme of songs and opera arias on Sunday 10 November: Love and Longing.
The concert, which is part of the SSO's VCHpresents season, features music by Massenet, Fauré, Verdi and Gounod. It's the perfect opportunity to hear this up-and-coming star of the opera world in a chamber music setting.
Long Long is one of the most exciting lyric tenors of his generation. He graduated from the Shanghai Music Academy and the University Opera Research Institute in Beijing. He won the third prize at the Tenor Viñas Competition in Barcelona and at the Moniuszko Vocal Competition in Warsaw as well as the first prize at the International Music Competition Harbin. Since September 2019 he has been a member of the Staatsoper Hannover.
This November we bid farewell to our Co-Concertmaster Lynnette Seah, who will be retiring from the SSO. In January 1979 the SSO presented its inaugural concert, and with it the debut of 21-year-old Lynnette Seah as acting orchestra leader. Over 40 years, Lynnette became the face of the SSO for generations of music lovers in Singapore and a warm constant presence for numerous visiting musicians. She has performed for seven presidents and three prime ministers of Singapore as well as for the late King of Thailand and the Emperor and Empress of Japan.
We'll be celebrating Lynnette's incredible career with the SSO at this 'French Connections' chamber concert at the Victoria Concert Hall on Thursday 14 November. Lynnette will team up with our Principal harpist Gulnara Mashurova and a host of other musicians from the SSO for a programme of works that includes Massenet's Méditation from Thaïs and Fauré's Piano Quartet No.1. French Connections is part of this year's Voilah! France Singapore Festival.
Love and Longing
Long Long, tenor / Tengku Irfan, piano
Sun / 10 Nov 19 / 4.00pm
Victoria Concert Hall
Inspired by beauty, love and longing, the young and upcoming Chinese tenor Long Long presents an afternoon of French and Italian love songs. Follow his voice in aria and air, accompanied by Malaysian pianist Tengku Irfan, and revel in the sublime poetry of heartache and heartbreak. Love, the strange gracefulness of everything you say.
FeaturingLong Long, tenor / Tengku Irfan, piano
ProgrammeChanson d'Amour, Op. 27 | |
|---|---|
Ouvre tes yeux bleus from Poème d'amour | Jules Massenet (Massenet) |
Non t'accostare all'urna | Giuseppe Verdi (Verdi) |
Core 'ngrato | Cardillo |
È la solita storia del pastore from L'arlesiana | Cilea |
Ideale | Paolo Tosti (Tosti) |
L'ultima canzone | Paolo Tosti (Tosti) |
Non ti scordar di me | De Curtis |
Après un rêve from Trois mélodies | |
Salut demeure chaste et pure from Faust | Charles Gounod (Gounod) |
Dein ist mein ganzes Herz from Das Land des Lächelns | Franz Lehár |
French Connections
, violin / Gulnara Mashurova, harp / Musicians of the SSO
Thu / 14 Nov 19 / 7.30pm
Victoria Concert Hall
Lynnette and Gulnara, two familiar faces of the SSO, come together in this enchanting evening of French musical poetry. Fauré's elegant Piano Quartet shares the atmosphere of perfumed lyricism with Ravel’s well-known miniature harp concerto played in its original chamber form. Massenet’s heavenly Meditation from Thaïs needs no introduction, but be prepared to revel in the evocative and subtle verses from Debussy’s narrative settings from Les Chansons de Bilitis.
Featuring:
Lynnette Seah, violin
Gulnara Mashurova, harp
Kong Xian Long, violin
Sasaki Chikako, violin
Wu Man Yun, violin
Xu Jue Yi, violin
Yeo Teow Meng, violin
Yin Shu Zhan, violin
Guan Qi, viola
Marietta Ku, viola
Wang Dandan, viola
Guo Hao, cello
Jamshid Saydikarimov, cello
Song Woon Teng, cello
Jacek Mirucki, double bass
Evgueni Brokmiller, flute
Roberto Alvarez, flute
Tang Xiao Ping, clarinet
Huang Yu Hsin, harp
Shane Thio, celesta
Yeo Kuei Pin, piano
Vivien Sinapius, narrator
, violin / Gulnara Mashurova, harp / Musicians of the SSO
ProgrammeLes Chansons de Bilitis | Claude Debussy (Debussy) |
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Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet, M. 46 | Maurice Ravel (Ravel) |
Meditation from Thaïs for Violin and String Ensemble | Jules Massenet (Massenet) |
Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 15 | |
*before booking fees: $1 for tickets $20 and below, $3 for tickets $20.01 to $40, $4 for tickets above $40.
Tickets are available from website: ticketing.sso.org.sg, SISTIC hotline: 6348 5555, SISTIC counters island-wide and, for concerts at the Esplanade Concert Hall, Esplanade Box Office.
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