A joyous outing by Chamber Music & Arts Singapore, Resound Collective

What happens when the two most important chamber music forces in Singapore join hands?

- Chang Tou Liang

Chamber Music & Arts Singapore and Resound Collective joined forces to play Beethoven's Grosse Fuge.

(PHOTO: CLARENCE AW)

Operating independently, Singaporean violinist Tang Tee Khoon's Chamber Music & Arts Singapore (CMAS) and local impresario Mervin Beng's Resound Collective have set the Singapore chamber music scene alight in recent years. Their collaboration, in a collegial spirit of partnership to make music, was inevitable.

Opening the evening was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 In D Minor (K. 466) with Hungarian pianist Zoltan Fejervari as soloist and British violinist Candida Thompson (of the renowned Amsterdam Sinfonietta) as leader.

Although none of the performers onstage subscribe to the period instrument philosophy, some practices were in place.