Kyung Wha Chung plays Bartók violin sonata No.2

1997 marked Ms Chung's 30th anniversary of her international debut, and she gave a series of celebratory concerts in her motherland, Japan and the UK; in Korea, it was consisted with the performances of Brahms concerto, Bach & Vivaldi concertos with the chamber orchestra organized for the occasion, and a duo recital with pianist Itamar Golan.
Kyung-Wha Chung is most remembered by her passionate interpretation of major violin concertos, but it is through an evening of chamber recital that she shines all her characters and depth, which often can be overlooked under the grand scale of big concertos. This video record of the anniversary recital proves it to the point. Through 3 weighty main program of Brahms, Bartók and Schumann and down to 4 encores, she simply gives her all.
Bartók is one of the composers Kyung-Wha Chung really championed. She seems to instinctively understand the innate rhythm of Bartók (No wonder both Georg Solti and Pierre Boulez invited her to play Bartók for their own major birthday galas).
Here, the sheer intensity of her focus is almost scary and Itamar Golan truly brings out the percussionistic quality of Bartók's piano part.
I. Molto moderato 0:00
II. Allegretto 7:34
* the rest of the program from the same evening
Brahms violin sonata No.1: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaWqeXaahrCXp7M
Schumann violin sonata No.2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3rCZ4SeedF7rdU
Bach 'Air on G': kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWqnlICcoc6gi5Y
Poldini 'Dancing Doll': kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3vWnXWOodhnmtk
Brahms 'Scherzo': kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqLTm5x8rp6ZjKs
Debussy 'Beau Soir': kzbin.info/www/bejne/qWWbnpugoZKZmdk

[@ocs6608]

Mesmerizing!

[@user-me9ol9cx9q]

범접할 수 없는 우리 경화느님!

[@hkkyun]

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[@michaelcardini]

I do hear that! I love this performance, but yes, I do hear what you are talking about lol