Suckerpunch delivers a hit with intimate and informal recital

With fewer than five early music ensembles in Singapore, it was an unusual stroke of serendipity that two of them should perform on the same evening in relatively close proximity.

- Natalie Ng

CONCERT SUCKERPUNCH Baroque House Aug 23

While Cappella Martialis offered a late-night programme of Anglo-Iberian Mediaeval and Renaissance music as part of the Singapore Night Festival, Singapore's newest early music group Suckerpunch played a programme of Renaissance and Baroque works in Baroque House, a 150-year-old shophouse in Rowell Road.

Suckerpunch comprises singer Alison Wong; a trio of bowed-string instrumentalists Placida Ho, Leslie Tan and Mervyn Lee; as well as theorbist Christopher Clarke in a mixed string consort of violin, viols and lute.

Their concert unfolded in three segments, punctuated by short intermissions that encouraged conversation in between and even refreshments, which were available for sale alongside tickets.