Young Finnish pianist Antti Siirala makes his Singapore debut playing Mozart's possibly most popular Piano Concerto No. 21, frequently remembered for its lyrical second movement featured in the 1967 Swedish film, "Elvira Madigan".
Antti Siirala's international career was launched when he won First Prize in the 10th Vienna Beethoven competition as the youngest contestant, receiving the special award for the best performance of a late Beethoven sonata. He then went on to win the first prize in both the Leeds and Dublin International Piano Competitions in 2003.
In the last of a series of concerts commemorating Elgar's 150th birth anniversary, conductor Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra present two of Elgar's most popular works – Cockaigne, an explicit evocation of contemporary London, and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches. The first of the Marches in particular is now a firm fixture at English sporting events and American graduation ceremonies.
The evening's programme begins with Schubert's Symphony No. 5. Completed when he was merely nineteen, this symphony is one of the most cheerful of all his works and features an ebullient first, and an exquisite slow movement. -- www.sso.org.sg
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