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Violinist Jennifer Koh delivers incandescent take on Bach’s D minor partita
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Korean-American violinist Jennifer Koh gave an exhilarating recital at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory on Sept 17.
PHOTO: WAN ZHONG HAO
Geoffrey Lim
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Jennifer Koh
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall
Sept 17, 7.30pm
A solo violin recital is at once the most intimate and the most heroic form of performance. Pitilessly exposed and unsupported (or unburdened) by an accompanist who might share the spotlight and provide cover for wrong notes, it also requires the violinist to struggle continuously to create the illusion of harmony and texture from the slender resources of his or her fundamentally melodic instrument.
