VCH CHAMBER SERIES: SAX & SEXTE
Sat, 31 Oct 2015, 4pm
Victoria Concert Hall
SINGAPORE
One of the greatest contemporary saxophonists today, Claude Delangle partners musicians of the SSO in Adolf Busch’s Quintet and will also take centrestage in the Hot Sonate by Erwin Schulhoff, a splendid work that marries contemporary music with American jazz. In the second half of the concert, we bring you the captivating Piano Sextet in D major composed by the prodigious Felix Mendelssohn when he was just 15.
“Delangle is simply the mellowest, most subtle, liquid, and dreamy saxophonist I've ever heard.” – American Record Guide
OVERVIEW
One of the greatest contemporary saxophonists today, Claude Delangle partners musicians of the SSO in Adolf Busch’s Quintet and will also take centrestage in the Hot Sonate by Erwin Schulhoff, a splendid work that marries contemporary music with American jazz. In the second half of the concert, we bring you the captivating Piano Sextet in D major composed by the prodigious Felix Mendelssohn when he was just 15.
“Delangle is simply the mellowest, most subtle, liquid, and dreamy saxophonist I've ever heard.” – American Record Guide
Priority sales: 26 May 15 | Public sales: 29 May 15
PROGRAMME
SCHULHOFF Hot Sonate for alto saxophone and piano
- Claude Delangle, saxophone
- Low Shao Suan, piano
ADOLF BUSCH Quintet for alto saxophone, two violins, viola and cello
- Claude Delangle, saxophone
- Chan Yoong-Han, violin
- Cindy Lee, violin
- Luo Biao, viola
- Chan Wei Shing, cello
MENDELSSOHN Piano Sextet in D major, Op. 110
- Albert Tiu, piano
- Chan Yoong-Han, violin
- Gu Bing Jie, viola
- Marietta Ku, viola
- Ng Pei-Sian, cello
- Yang Zheng Yi, double bass