Vasily Petrenko & Gautier Capuçon
Sat, 19 September 2026, 7.30pm
Laughter and fruitfulness fill Our Garden, a cantata for children’s choir and orchestra by Estonia’s most famous composer today, Arvo Pärt. Hear its infectious joy radiate from the Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir in this evening with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
The programme also stars cellist extraordinaire Gautier Capuçon in Saint-Saëns’s uplifting Cello Concerto No. 1, an audience favourite from the late-Romantic era. Finally, witness the gargantuan forces rallied by Vasily Petrenko, one of today’s leading interpreters of Shostakovich’s music, to perform Shostakovich’s incredible Fourth Symphony, a wild maelstrom of modernity with nary a dull moment, high-speed harmonic heists punctuated by the disquieting tick-tocks of oblivion.
FEATURING
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Gautier Capuçon, cello*
Wong Lai Foon, choirmaster
PROGRAMME
Pärt Our Garden – Cantata for Children’s Chorus and Orchestra
Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33*
Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43
