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SSO under baton of Kolja Blacher wins standing ovation for stirring Dvorak’s Ninth
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Guest conductor Kolja Blacher led the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a concert at the Esplanade Concert Hall on Jan 16.
PHOTO: JACK YAM
Geoffrey Lim
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Esplanade Concert Hall
Jan 16, 7.30pm
What, or where, is the new world exactly, and what does it mean to be from it? The three works on offer this evening posed radically different responses to this question, but all were performed with idiomatic clarity and thrilling conviction by guest conductor Kolja Blacher and a galvanised Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO).
