A smorgasbord of delights for small string groups!

Touted as “the father of the classical symphony and string quartet”, Austrian composer Joseph Haydn established ground-breaking quartets, in which four players performed as equals. Since then, almost every great composer from Mozart to Shostakovich has written music in this form. There are however, many wonderful works for smaller and larger string groups, each with its own unique charm.

In this lunchtime concert, musicians from Resound Collective, Singapore's leading chamber music assembly, bring you a sumptuous selection of this music by Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Borodin.

https://www.sso.org.sg/vchpresents/with-strings-attached

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

Featuring:

Koh Jia Hwei, Organ

Lee Shi Mei, Violin

Lin Juan, Cello

PROGRAMME

Mendelssohn’s Andante with variations in D major

Rheinberger’s Suite for organ, violin and cello, Op. 149

Lim Yan & Lee Shi Mei present this programme of three sonatas which share a motivic connection.

Between 1798 and 1803, Beethoven wrote nine violin sonatas, but there was a hiatus of nine years before his final work in the genre; the contrast in style with the previous sonatas is stark, reflecting the evolution in Beethoven’s musical voice over that time. Schumann and Brahms, who can be considered to be Beethoven’s successors in the Germanic tradition, wrote their violin sonatas relatively late in their careers. YST Collaborative Piano faculty Lim Yan with long-time collaborator Lee Shi Mei present this programme of three sonatas which share a motivic connection (as alluded to in the programme title), which also appears in Brahms’ Three Intermezzi for piano solo.

Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/go-fourth-step-by-step-tickets-88060095115?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

PROGRAMME

BEETHOVEN

Violin Sonata No.10 in G major Op. 96

BRAHMS

Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

— Intermission —

BRAHMS

Three Intermezzi, Op. 117

SCHUMANN

Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor, Op. 105

Seasoned chamber musicians get together and perform up and coming young composer Chia Ren Cher’s new Classical string quartet, titled “Colour”. Featuring Lee Shi Mei and Dr Tang Tee Tong on violins, Edward Tan on viola and Lin Juan on cello. The recital will commence with the composer’s brief introduction of his new work followed by the performance of all four movements of the string quartet.

Title: Much A-dur About Nothing - Lee Shi Mei and Lim Yan in Recital

Venue: Esplanade Recital Studio

Date: Saturday 6 April 2019

Time: 7.30pm

Tickets at $30 and $25 (student/NSF/seniors concession) available at https://much-adur-about-nothing.peatix.com/

Korngold’s exquisite incidental music to Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing anticipates his later success as a film composer, from which four colourful character pieces make up the Suite for Violin and Piano.

Flanking this are two monumental pieces in A-Dur (A major) - Beethoven’s emotionally-charged “Kreutzer” Sonata, and the ever-popular Franck Sonata, written as a wedding gift for the violinist Eugene Ysaÿe who performed it for guests on his wedding day!

Join Singaporean musicians Lee Shi Mei and Lim Yan in this programme of dramatic and well-loved violin and piano music.

This recital is kindly supported by the National Arts Council and The Arts Fund.

Fours years since we first worked together, Lim Yan and I will perform a collection of old and new duo repertoire in this free concert presented by the Esplanade, at the Esplanade Concourse this Saturday at 4.30pm, 5.30pm and 6.30pm.

https://www.esplanade.com/festivals-and-series/cool-classics/2019/enchanting-violin-sonatas-of-the-romantic-era

29 Apr 2018 Sunday, 7.30pm, Esplanade Recital Studio
Tickets $20
(For tickets, please email to 2006remix@gmail.com)