Rarely performed as a complete set, here is your chance to experience the majesty of J.S. Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos in one unmissable concert. With their irresistible energy, unforgettable melodies and diverse instrumentation, the Brandenburgs are the definition of what good music should be. Involving over 25 acclaimed musicians, Bach’s timeless music is a perfect way to launch the next decade of the Beare’s Premiere Music Festival.

Beethoven is featured in this concert as artist and as muse. Beethoven’s piano works are performed by one of today’s foremost interpreters of his repertoire, pianist Olli Mustonen, along with compositions by Mustonen himself. The Asia premiere of Mustonen’s Taivaanvalot (meaning “lights from heaven”) will dazzle together with the works that inspired it.

The Beare’s Premiere Music Festival comes to its sublime conclusion with Mendelssohn’s adored Octet as you have never heard it before. Performed off the composer’s original manuscript, the performance will include 100 bars of original music that was omitted from the printed score. Masters of source interpretation, the Borromeo Quartet, will be joined on stage by festival musicians for an evening of music making as intellectually stimulating as it is emotionally rich.

Add some spice to your Sunday afternoon with a concert that mixes strings with the playful timbres of marimba, wind and brass. The concert’s second half features Bach’s beautiful Goldberg Variations, uniquely reimagined for string quartet.

This concert focuses on the virtuosity of musicians who use their breath as the force to create music – voice, woodwind and brass. Starting with the heat and energy of Poulenc’s Sextet for winds and piano, we include two works by Schumann – his beautiful song cycle “A Poet’s Love” written while he was yearning for his wife Clara, and his three romances for oboe & piano which he gave to her as a present. The concert concludes with Brahms’ famous horn trio – perhaps the most significant piece of chamber music written for that instrument.

Tan Dun’s epic film music will be performed live to projections of some of the stunning cinematic moments that his music scored. The concert features music and film excerpts from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), Hero (2002) and The Banquet (2006), arranged by Tan Dun for piano, violin and cello.