ReSounding 重生(声)

Pianist See Ning Hui returns with ReSounding 重生(声), part of a series featuring Fanny Mendelssohn’s Easter Sonata. Written in 1828—before the Mendelssohn siblings revived Bach’s St Matthew Passion and transformed classical music—the Sonata was buried in the archives and misattributed to Felix until its rediscovery in 2010. Following concerts in London and Manila, where critic Yoko Tsunekawa noted her ‘rich palette of colours and expressive phrasing’, Ning Hui brings the Sonata into dialogue with voices from home.

Two Singaporean composers offer striking new soundworlds: Ng Yu Hng’s ‘memory mansion’ and Toh Yan Ee’s evocation of kampung birdsong in HDB estates. Sunlit hills and the raging West Wind come alive in Debussy’s preludes, while Florence Price’s celebration of her African-American identity resonates with Chopin’s undertones of Polish insurrection.

PROGRAMME

Claude Debussy Preludes ‘Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest’, ‘Les collines d'Anacapri’

Ng Yu Hng ‘The Memory Mansion at the End of Time’

Fanny Mendelssohn Ostersonate

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Frédéric Chopin Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49

Toh Yan Ee ‘Within a Cage of Echoes’ (commission)*

Florence Price Fantasie nègre No. 2**

*world premiere

**Singapore premiere

This recital is made possible with the kind support of the de Leóns.