Bartok Piano Concerto No3 - Mov.1 Myung-Whun Chung, Yeol-Eum Son, Seoul Philharmonic

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra-Special Concert in commemoration of Europe Tour ==

Bela Bartok Piano Concerto No.3 - 1st Mov. ==

Yeol-Eum Son (Piano),
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG ==

Live at the Seoul Arts Center - 2009. Aug. 21. ==

Yeol-Eum Son
Son was born in May 2, 1986 in Wonju, South Korea. Son took her first piano lesson at the age of three. She made a recital debut on Kumho Prodigy Concert Series in July 1998. At the age of twelve, she started studying with pianist Kim Dae-jin. At age sixteen, she entered the Korea National University of Arts to continue her piano studies. At the age of 18, she recorded the complete Chopin Etudes (Op 10 and Op 25) for a "Universal Music" CD. She has performed with New York Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and many others. She has been sponsored by Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, Korea. Since 2006, Yeol-eum Son has been studying with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik und Theatre, Hannover, Germany.
2009: 2nd Prize, Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition


Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (SPO) was founded in 1948 and remains Korea's oldest and most prominent orchestra. In February of 1948, the orchestra held its opening concert, conducted by Maestro Seong-Tae Kim. In October of the same year, the Seoul Philharmonic Society was formed to provide support for the orchestra. The society published the music monthly philharmony in the following year. After a subscription concert in the Seoul Civic Hall on June 25, 1950, the orchestra had to suspend its activities due to the outbreak of the Korean War, but resumed performance under the name of the Naval Symphony Orchestra, just five months later, to soothe the broken hearts of Koreans during the war.

In August 1957, the Seoul Metropolitan Council passed an ordinance to install a civic Orchestra and so the Naval Symphony Orchestra was performed as the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the first orchestra funded by the government in Korea. With the support of the government, he Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra introduced the citizens of Korea to western symphonic literature. The orchestra also focused on nurturing young musicians by holding concerts where promising children and adolescent musicians who passed the orchestras rigorous auditions were given the opportunity to perform with the orchestra. It was through these concerts that such names as Kyung-Sook Lee, Kun-Woo Paik, Kyung-Wha Chung, Dong-Suk Kang and Myung-Whun Chung were able to blossom.

With the aim of becoming a world-class orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra was re-launched as an incorporated foundation on June 1, 2005 and welcomed the world-renowned Maestro Myung-Whun Chung as its Music Director. SINCE THEN the orchestra has since made stellar development. As a result of its reorganization, full-scale auditions were held, which resulted in the replacement of 40 percent of the members.

The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra embarked on a Beethoven cycle in 2006, a Brahms series in 2007 and Masterpieces Series in 2008. Top class musicians from home and abroad have participated in the these concerts including violinist Leonidas Kavakos and Frank Peter Zimmermann, cellist Jian Wang, pianist Nelson Freire and Nicholas Angelich, and soprano Kate Royal.

Focus is also placed on interaction with modern music with the Orchestra inviting Kroean composer Unsuk Chin to be the first composer in residence in Korea. Maestra Chin was awarded the Grawemeyer Award -dubbed the Nobel Prizes for musicians- in 2004, and the Arnold Schoenberg Prize in 2005. Chin has planned the Ars Nova modern music series since 2006 to introduce Korean music lovers to recently composed masterpieces. Since its reformation, the SPO has been performing with such world-class conductors as Charles Dutoit, James Judd, Mikko Franck, Andrey Boreyko, Rossen Milanov, Xian Zhang, Pinchas Zukerman as well as such distinguished musicians as Leonidas Kavakos(Vn), Ilya Gringolts (Vn), Viviane Hagner (Vn), Hae-Sun Kang (Vn), Jian Wang (Vc), Sabine Meyer (Cl), Martin Frost (Cl), Hakan Hardenberger (Tp), Martha Argerich (Pf), Gary Graffman (Pf), Nelson Freire(Pf), Alexander Melnikov (Pf), Nicholas Angelich (Pf), Sun-Wook Kim (Pf), and Colin Currie (Perc.).

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[kadidask15]

thank you so much for uploading this!!

[rminadeo]

wonderful presentation! she´s a good talent!!!

[toxiicparadiise1]

Quel talent !

[doovud]

@rmjs777 The composer's intentions are the far most important. It's a bad performance without the bartokian idioms. The music will survive such performances, thank God.

[rmjs777]

Who cares how Bartok wanted it to sound? A different approach is so damn refreshing. So many classical recordings are so boring and formulaic...

[obiwan88]

Technically strong, but I don't think she's doing justice to the concerto, at least I don't think it's the way Bartok wanted it to be sound. Not an issue if you aren't looking for that in the first place though. It's like getting someone to play Bach like a Rachmaninov concerto.

[SmianiexD]

she's great, but i don't understand the music.....

[sethmartinhill]

She really can bang that piano! Seriously, her interpretation is a lot more "brittle" and "sharp" and "percussive" than most, but it's actually kind of interesting. Bartok wrote a lot of dissonances which other pianists kind of bury.

[liquidrunning]

Not my favourite concerto ever (not even, really), but not a terribly good performance of this first movement either. Sorry.

[MrRaph87]

dommage d'avoir une opinion aussi radicale ... c'est un magnifique Concerto, et le quasi-testament de Bartok, une oeuvre sublissime !! vous êtes libre de qualifier ce Concerto d'oeuvre "médiocre" (awful comment !!), et de ne rien comprendre à cette musique, allant même jusqu'à dire qu'elle est "prétentieuse" !! mon Dieu !!

peut-être, si vous écoutez le 2e mouvement, reviendrez-vous sur des commentaires aussi hâtifs ... et stupides !!

[avenaoat]

I look at the pianist's face and I can see she like very much this concerto. The orchastra is excellent too. Excellent performance!

[jubailblast]

@macchupicchu29 Sorry my Friend, but I lack any kind of musical knowledge. However, even if her performance was deceiving and imperfect I still don't find this particular piano concerto in any way mesmerizing. I listen to a lot of classical music and to be honest this one doesn't invoke any feelings. It's complex, I'll give it that. But in my humble opinion, it's a pretentious, unoriginal piece.