Yeol Eum Son & Thomas Rösner / Shostakovich and Mendelssohn

Renowned for her fluid celerity and mesmerising artistry, popular South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son returns to Singapore to be joined by SSO Principal Trumpet Jon Dante in Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a hectic work of sardonic wit and energy originally intended as a trumpet concerto. This programme led by Austrian conductor Thomas Rösner also includes Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony, a symphonic interpretation of Martin Luther’s rousing Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”) – the battle hymn of the Reformation.

Featuring
Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Rösner, conductor / Yeol Eum Son, piano* / Jon Paul Dante, trumpet*

Programme
Mozart
Masonic Funeral Music, K. 477

Shostakovich
Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35*

Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5, Op. 107 “Reformation”