Esplanade Presents
President's Young Performers Concert
Pan Yi An, Jonathan Lim
Singapore
7 Jul 06, Fri, 7.30pm, Concert Hall
Lan Shui, conductor
Pan Yi An, piano
Jonathan Lim, piano
07 Jul 2006, Fri 7.30 PM
Programme
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 102
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathetique'
Young piano talents Pan Yi An and Jonathan Lim launch another
brilliant SSO season in a marvellously varied programme.
Shostakovich wrote his second piano concerto in 1957 as a birthday
gift for his 19-year-old pianist son Maxim: a work full of
light-hearted energy that probably owes as much to the composer's
relief at the demise of Stalin as to his cheerful wishes for his
son. The beautiful yet melancholic world of Symphony No. 6, with
its sense of intense internal struggle, features in its opening
movement one of the loveliest themes ever written by
Tchaikovsky.
