Last evening's Puccini Gala closed with what else but the crowd-pleasing Nessun dorma. To say it was to save the best for last wouldn't have been far from the truth, and definitely not in a tired-cliché way ( Read more... )

Being groupies of his, dontlikeyou and I weren't about to miss out on Jin Li performing solo with the SSO, all the more so when it was FOC - a "rush hour" concert as styled by the organisers. The star vehicle was Paganini's 1st Violin Concerto, a work teeming with technical difficulties from start to end. Based on his performance of the composer's 2nd Violin ( Read more... )