SSO Announces Feb-May Digital Season: Chloe Chua to Star in Upcoming Online Concert
The SSOPlayOn! digital season continues with a raft of concerts, announced today, taking place from February to May. Highlights include a performance of Bach’s Double Violin Concerto by young virtuoso Chloe Chua alongside SSO First Violinist Ye Lin.
Cindy Lim, Head of Marketing Communications for SSG said: “With the gradual resumption of live performances, the SSO will be reducing the frequency of its online concerts to once a month. This will allow some of our patrons, who may not be comfortable returning to the concert hall at the moment, to still enjoy concerts by their national orchestra from their home. In addition, due to popular demand, we will be bringing back the $5 early bird price. Standard tickets for our SSOPlayOn! events will now cost $8, down from $10, making our online concerts even more affordable, so that we can attract new audiences in the digital space."
On Friday 26 February at 8pm the orchestra’s ‘Celebrating Bach’ series continues with ‘Miracle of Music (Online)’, comprising two violin concertos by J. S. Bach alongside Telemann’s Don Quixote Suite, conducted by Joshua Tan. This concert was recorded live in front of a small, safe-distanced audience, at the Victoria Concert Hall on 4 December 2020.
The following month, on Friday 19 March, ‘VCHpresents Chamber: Haydn’s Emperor & Tchaikovsky’s Florence (Online)’ pairs Haydn’s ‘Emperor’ String Quartet and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenirs de Florence. This concert was recorded live at the Victoria Concert Hall on 8 October. VCHpresents continues on Friday 16 April with a performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A major and Beethoven’s Piano Quartet No. 3 in ‘VCHpresents Chamber: Sparkle and Serenity (Online)’.
On Friday 21 May ‘Celebrating Bach’ continues with ‘A Gift to the Universe (Online)', conducted by Darrell Ang and featuring Singapore’s star young violinist, Chloe Chua, who is joined by SSO First Violinist Ye Lin for J. S. Bach’s Double Violin Concerto. Tickets for all these concerts will be available at the special early-bird price of $5 from 28 January until 10 February. After this period, tickets will start at $8 on a pay-as-you-wish basis. Online concerts are available to watch for two weeks after the premiere.
In addition, the SSO announces the cancellation of all remaining live concerts of the previously-announced 2020/21 season. Newly-curated live concerts will be announced in the coming weeks.
The specific 2020/21 live concerts to be cancelled are:
Serenade for Strings 24 February (Weds) | Victoria Concert Hall
Cédric Tiberghien Plays Ravel 5 & 6 March (Fri & Sat) | Victoria Concert Hall
Family Film Favourites 13 & 14 March (Sat & Sun) | Victoria Concert Hall
Mozart and Mother Goose 26 & 27 March (Fri & Sat) | Victoria Concert Hall
Beethoven and Mozart with Simone Lamsma 1 & 3 April (Thu & Sat) | Victoria Concert Hall
Mahler’s Wunderhorn with Hans Graf & Sumi Hwang 10 April | Esplanade Concert Hall
Bomsori Plays Shostakovich 17 April | Esplanade Concert Hall
The Kozlovsky Requiem 30 Apr-1 May | Victoria Concert Hall
Brahms and the Firebird 7 May | Esplanade Concert Hall
Louis Schwizgebel Plays Mozart 15 May | Esplanade Concert Hall
Miracle of Music - Celebrating Bach II (Online)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, Associate Conductor / Chan Yoong-Han, violin / Kong Zhao Hui, violin
Fri / 26 Feb 21 / 8.00pm
SISTIC Live [Online]
Pure inspiration distilled into sound, Bach’s music is a leap from earth to heaven. Join SSO veteran violinists Chan Yoong-Han and Kong Zhao Hui in two of Bach’s violin concertos, timeless treasures of classical music. “To make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.” - Pablo Casals.
This concert was recorded at Victoria Concert Hall on 4 Dec 2020.
FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 26 Feb 2021. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 12 Mar 2021, 8pm.
FeaturingSingapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, Associate Conductor / Chan Yoong-Han, violin / Kong Zhao Hui, violin
ProgrammeViolin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041* | Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach) |
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Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042^ | Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach) |
Don Quixote Suite | Georg Philipp Telemann (Telemann) |
Haydn’s Emperor and Tchaikovsky’s Florence (Online)
Chen Da Wei, violin / Nikolai Koval, violin / , violin / Xu Jueyi, violin / Marietta Ku, viola / Janice Tsai, viola / Dandan Wang, viola / Guo Hao, cello / , cello / Yu Jing, cello
Fri / 19 Mar 21 / 8.00pm
SISTIC Live [Online]
The sparkling Emperor Quartet is one of the most beloved gifts from the Father of the String Quartet, Joseph Haydn, home to the noble “Emperor’s Hymn”. Join the musicians of the SSO as they bring home this popular work to the Victoria Concert Hall, alongside the sonorous majesty of Tchaikovsky’s string sextet, Souvenir de Florence.
This concert was recorded at the Victoria Concert Hall on 8 Oct 2020.
FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 19 Mar 2021. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 2 Apr 2021, 8pm.
FeaturingChen Da Wei, violin / Nikolai Koval, violin / , violin / Xu Jueyi, violin / Marietta Ku, viola / Janice Tsai, viola / Dandan Wang, viola / Guo Hao, cello / , cello / Yu Jing, cello
ProgrammeString Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor" | Joseph Haydn (Haydn) |
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Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Tchaikovsky) |
Sparkle & Serenity - Beethoven and Mozart (Online)
Ma Yue, clarinet / Kong Xianlong, violin / , violin / Dandan Wang, viola / Zhao Tian, violin / Luo Biao, viola / Chan Wei Shing, cello / Jamshid Saydikarimov, cello / Albert Tiu, piano
Fri / 16 Apr 21 / 8.00pm
SISTIC Live [Online]
Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet is one of the most heartwarming treasures of our musical legacy, evoking a haven of rapturous beauty and serenity. Beethoven’s Piano Quartet No. 3 rings clearly of the influence and sparkle of Mozart, and it will only surprise you a little to learn that he wrote them when he was just 15, in 1785. Join the musicians of the SSO in these two gems of the late 18th century, there’s not a single note you won’t enjoy.
This concert was recorded at the Victoria Concert Hall on 6 November 2020.
FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 16 Apr 2021. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 30 Apr 2021, 8pm.
FeaturingMa Yue, clarinet / Kong Xianlong, violin / , violin / Dandan Wang, viola / Zhao Tian, violin / Luo Biao, viola / Chan Wei Shing, cello / Jamshid Saydikarimov, cello / Albert Tiu, piano
ProgrammeClarinet Quintet in A major, K.581 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mozart) |
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Piano Quartet No. 3 in C major, WoO 36 | Ludwig van Beethoven (Beethoven) |
A Gift to the Universe - Celebrating Bach III (Online)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Darrell Ang, conductor / Chloe Chua, violin / Ye Lin, violin
Fri / 21 May 21 / 8.00pm
SISTIC Live [Online]
Some 22 billion kilometres away in space, Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 lies among other earthly sounds and music on the Golden Record, carried by the Voyager space probes since they left Earth in 1977. Bach’s legacy is humanity’s future. Likewise, Singapore’s young shining star of the violin, Chloe Chua. See her live on stage with SSO violinist Ye Lin in the universally loved Double Violin Concerto. A present from a small, distant world, a token of our music, thoughts and feelings – a gift of music to the universe.
This concert is dedicated to the late Dr. Goh Keng Swee, founding patron of the SSO.
This concert was recorded at the Esplanade Concert Hall on 4 Feb 2021.
FORMAT: SISTIC Live stream on 21 May 2021. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm. Viewable until 4 Jun 2021, 8pm.
FeaturingSingapore Symphony Orchestra / Darrell Ang, conductor / Chloe Chua, violin / Ye Lin, violin
ProgrammeBrandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 | Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach) |
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Concerto in D minor for Two Violins and Orchestra, BWV 1043* | Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach) |
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 | Johann Sebastian Bach (J.S. Bach) |
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