Merry Christmas! 2020 has been a year of many unusual memories, but the SSO won’t let it pass without our annual musical gathering of yuletide cheer.
Join us and the Singapore Symphony Choruses in our special year-end celebration, featuring Baroque classics by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi as well as contemporary Christmas carols by popular choral music composer John Rutter. The show is directed by our "Count On Me, Singapore" director, Eric Wong. We wish you musical joy, harmony and peace on Earth!
Format: SISTIC Live stream on 18 Dec. Concert begins at 8pm with countdown lobby open at 7.30pm.
Note: Concert is viewable until 8 Jan 2021, 8pm. We cannot indicate this due to Facebook's restriction of event duration to a maximum of two weeks. Please follow this event page for updates.
Recorded at the Esplanade Concert Hall with no audience in Oct 2020.
Performers:
- Singapore Symphony Orchestra
- Joshua Tan, Associate Conductor
- Kong Zhao Hui, violin^
- Singapore Symphony Choruses
- Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director
- Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster
- Eric Wong, Director
Programme:
- "And the Glory of the Lord" from Handel's Messiah*
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring from Bach's Cantata No. 147*
- Angel’s Carol* by John Rutter
- I Wish You Christmas* by John Rutter
- Sussex Carol* (arr. Bradford)
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas* (arr. Rutter)
- Aria (Bach’s Air on a G String, arr. Stokowski)
- Carol of the Bells/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (arr. M. Riley)
- A Christmas Dance “Sir Roger de Coverley” by Bridge
- Fantasia on Greensleeves (arr. Greaves) by Vaughan Williams
- Winter from The Four Seasons^ by Vivaldi.
*With the Singapore Symphony Chorus, Youth Choir and Children’s Choir.
Image Credit: Singapore Symphony Orchestra
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