Kyung Wha Chung plays Beethoven violin concerto (1972)

Kyung-Wha Chung plays Beethoven violin concerto with RTÉ Orchestra (now National Orchestra) under the baton of Albert Rosen. This concert took place at St Parick's College in Dublin, Ireland in 1972.
She's using shortened version of cadenzzas, most probably to fit into the broadcasting time slot.
I. Allegro ma non troppo 00:01
II. Larghetto 20:46
III. Rondo. Allegro 30:24

[@user-jw7yw4si1s]

먹고 살기에도 벅찼던 그 시절 정씨 삼남매가 대한민국의 국격을 높여주었었고 크래식에 눈 뜨게 해 줬었습니다. 영원한 우리의 자랑입니다.

[@user-on4ev3kh6t]

1972년의 그녀가 보여주는 ,, 약소국 동양인 여성 차별을 다 삼키는 압도적인 실력과 지신감에 부한박수를 보냅니다.

[@white_wolf209]

72년도 연주를 이렇게 깨끗한 음질로 들을수 있다는게 너무 놀랍고 좋다 ㄷㄷ

[@feelssogood4011]

흑백영상도 존재하다니 놀랍네요. 정말 이정도면 전설아닌가요

[@user-hr9jf6cp4w]

화질도 좋음 ㄷㄷㅜㅜ

[@guitarsofold100]

I am annoyed at myself for not having found this glorious and talented violinist before this day two fine days and more to come from your you tube page and all the uploads!

[@chai9268]

나이가 드니 선율에 더 빠져듭니다 정경화님 덕분에 행복한 토요일이었습니다

[@leoathanatos9492]

Hard to find similar highest value of performance for such a hard play... What she did was a magnificent performance, I would say divine but is s still human... She has proven the goodness of Creation!

[@NikoHL]

Kyung Wha Chung was so beautiful and one of the greatest violinists ever...she's 22y/o in this performance.

[@ttmin7884]

20대의 정경화님 연주를 눈으로 볼 수 있다니 영광이네요!! 고맙습니다

[@house3721holder]

The orchestra is exhausting to listen to - so ponderous, so rote. Then the young soloist begins & the music takes flight. Kyung Wha Chung was always brilliant, wasn't she.

[@dennbo49]

Listened to this for the umpteenth time trying to hear what you and others find lacking in the orchestra. I woke up with this playing in my head this morning and thought how fine they were. especially like the 2nd violin. He just looks the part too. Perhaps the age of the recording being, I suppose analog, just doesn't match the technique of our modern age.

[@house3721holder]

That's a good point, dennbo49. Try listening to the Tchaikovsky, recorded in the same time frame. Could be the recording quality, and yet the orchestra seems more inspired.

[@garyguyton7373]

For a great example of an inspired orchestra giving inspires performances check Maestro Chung and the Seoul Philharmonics performances of Beethoven's 3rd. and 5th. Symphonies. Simply incredibly good.

[@TS13579]

@house3721holder Not to diminish from Ms. KWC, of course, or from anything you wrote. But isn't an orchestra of two or three dozen musicians by necessity -- and almost by definition -- more "ponderous" than a solitary soloist? On the other hand, however, as for the rote aspect that you mentioned -- I cannot offer any defense of that.

[@tillg202]

the orchestra is not perfect, however i love to hear it and of course adore kwc

[@user-py6dk4hn2g]

힘들때마다 듣고있습니다 감사합니다 저시절에 동양소녀가 보여준 당당함과 열정이 항상 힘을줍니다 소리또한 가장좋아합니다 전체적인 연주는 로얄알버트홀에서 텐슈테트와 함께한게 가장좋다고 느끼지만 이영상은 특별한힘이있습니다

[@yawenliu6648]

Thank you for always uploading videos and footages of Miss. Chung. These are so precious for fans like me. She is and will be my FAVORITE violinist for life.

[@kittydukakis]

So expressive yet exquisite.

[@user-de7fe7ku2k]

음악에 대해서 안다고 할순 없지만 연주의 선율과 아우라가 경이롭습니다

[@Caleb-ee2nt]

She plays freely. Loves such performers.

[@classicalalways]

Thank you for sharing such a rare gem. A great example of a young virtuoso with full command of her instrument and musical expression. Finding such playing by a violinist at this age today is virtually impossible.

[@user-xg1rx2tf4j]

여신이네요. 아니 더욱이 바이올린계의 여제네요^^♡

[@tillg202]

....there are so many beautiful interpretations of this beautiful breathtaking peace of art. However, this one is - for me - the one with most soul, I have to cry listening to it, and I don't stop doing so...😢

[@gfweis]

I was very happy to see this. It was a few years later that I saw her do the Brahms VC in Atlanta. Intensity and passion are what I associate with her, and deep romance when it's called for, for example, in her amazing andante in the Prokofiev VC No. 2 with Solti. She had it all even here in 1972, when she was about 24. I'm exactly her age. What was I achieving when I was 24?

[@siew-hongkoe5340]

Gregory Weis to

[@garyguyton7373]

Intensity and passion...that goes for all three of the Chung siblings. Virtuosos all.

[@user-tz5dm8fn7b]

72년이라니...지금의 대한민국 클래식을 이끌어 오신 정삼남매...정말 최고 중의 최고이십니다.

[@Iloveyounot]

Living Korean National Treasure and a TRUE trailblazer. Thank you.

[@gracielajhosefatvasquezzam9287]

Maravillosamente virtuosa!!!

[@septicaluk]

There are a lot of fine virtuoso violinists on YT - We are living in privileged times to be able to hear them just by clicking a few keyboard buttons. But few, in my very humble opinion, can reach the perfection that is Ms Chung. From her earliest recordings to the latest I enjoy her playing the most.

[@JohnSmith-ei2pm]

It is a pity that we have all had to pay such a hideous price for the 'privileged' time to which you refer. A hideous price so great that, being appraised to the true situation, no one would consider paying it by choice.

[@septicaluk]

@@JohnSmith-ei2pm I have to agree with you John concerning events as a whole. But we can at least find some respite by losing ourselves, albeit very briefly, to this wonderful music.

[@JohnSmith-ei2pm]

@@septicaluk Indeed. It certainly is both wonderful music and wonderful playing.

[@arturoborski5909]

74 and still the best... :)

[@paulpark167]

1972년도 아주 오래 전이네요 이즈음에 막스브르흐의 스코티시 환타지와 차이코프스키 바이얼린 협주곡 lp음반 내셨던듯 한데요

[@user-xm6qb5cg4i]

연주 자료보전 자료남아 있게만드신 관계자 분 천당갈겁니다

[@eros4627]

감동적이고 아름다운 연주 잘보았습니다.그러나 ....보고 들으면서 내내 저도 모르게 내내 코끝이 찡하고 눈물이 흐르는걸 참을수없군요.

[@user-mh6un9qw2e]

진짜 저도 정경화씨 연주 볼 때 마다 눈물 너무 많이나요 클래식에 대한 식견 같은 거 1도 없는데... 이상하게 슬프더라고요 한국인이라 그런가봐요ㅋㅋ

[@marcaurele3115]

Très brillant , techniquement et musicalement ! A la hauteur des plus grands ! Bravo ...

[@nicolopaganini1608]

A heroine

[@hyosooklee4150]

요새 정경화님 연주에 빠져듭니다. 비교불가!!

[@tklim66]

Music prodigy ! I salute Kyung Hwa for her outstanding performance !

[@lucyprovedel7065]

Remarkable performance!

[@ravenstrobe]

Excellent all round performance - and I wonder if the 2nd movement was ever played with such beauty & passion. I'm so happy to have found this wonderful version.

[@PerformerFocus]

In 1972 (The Republic of) Ireland, was still a new Nation, with a phenomenal, and now Internationally respected tradition in Music. Bravo.

[@jeongranshim3588]

OMG.. IT WAS 50Y AGO PERFORMANCE.

[@79violin]

Her pieces make me short of breath, since when she was young and 50 years passed even now. Bravo.

[@luciakwon9833]

24살때엿어요 정말 귀한 자료네요 너무 총명해보여요

[@user-pw5jm5lx5m]

자랑스러워요 대한민국~~그시대에 대단한 정경화 그어머니^^존경합니다

[@ninanam7924]

she.s the brilliance in the dark.

[@user-pk6bs3jd6l]

Fabulous recording somehow combining the nobility of this great concerto with the freshness and excitement which was KWC's trademark in her early performances. A shame that the first movement cadenza was edited!

[@penelopewhite5074]

Ginette et rien du autre pour une LYRICHALMENT Beethoven Concerto. Qui du autre joue une EMOTINALMENT et EXPRESSIVE Beethoven Concerto?: Bravo Tante Ginette!!!

[@samuelgreter8421]

Sehr gut und wunderschön gespielt mit grossem Einfühlungsvermögen. 👍🏿👍🏿

[@gfweis]

Einfühlungsvermögen...das war gut gesagt.

[@user-wm1tl5jg8c]

Upload so thank you

[@user-wp5gw1rw7x]

Elle est la super vedette sud-coréenne ❤

[@user-in3eh3ri9v]

최고 그 이상!!!❤❤❤~^♡^

[@lisalee..9243]

Bravo!!

[@romeoprimo]

Brava!!

[@sangwookhan622]

브라보는 남성에게,브라바는 여성에게,브라비는 집단에게

[@TS13579]

Everything looks better in black and white. And sounds better, too.

[@JEJE2ND]

진짜 ! 최고다 !

[@iomyhousee5615]

谢谢你， екселент!

[@user-bd8lj1wd4x]

한국의 기적이다 진짜진짜

[@May-yj9hv]

¡Me encanta!

[@user-he4jf8qq4c]

very good ~~~!!!

[@kimrichard8321]

Incredible performance gifted from heaven absolutely.

[@user-pk6li5sf9v]

チョンキョンファさんに!　合いたい。二十歳に　聞いてとりこに、ナンバーワンです!なんか、盛り上がって!ちょっとの!変顔が。好きです!

[@user-hk7gb5lr2i]

우와!

[@user-bi3jf6gs1z]

신도 따라할 수 없는 재능

[@jos53cor]

¡Excelente interpretación!

[@7mandalorian]

딱 1악장 카덴짜 시작하면서 테잎이 튀어 버렸네요.. 늘어진 건가.. 아까워라~ 저 당시 불꽃처럼 피어나던 경화님에게 베토벤 바협은 레퍼토리로 조금은 어울리지 않게 느껴집니다. 확실히 차이콥이나 멘델스존 브루흐 때의 '굉장함'보다는 그렇게 느껴지네요. 몇몇 실수도 있었고.. 마지막 연주마치고 살짝 불만족스런 미소로 퇴장하시는 모습에서 더욱 느껴짐.

[@user-ri5op8tq8y]

몇번 실수해도 안한것 처럼 느껴지죠,30대 베토벤 바협 들어보세요^^

[@user-ri5op8tq8y]

시벨리우스 진짜 진짜 진짜 최고

[@NorbyHofner]

what is the matter with those timpany notes on the dominant opening beats??

[@cl9724]

🙏🙏🙏

[@xxxxxxxxSvenxxxxxxxx]

Es ist eine Beleidigung der Musiker dieses wirklich herrliche Stück Musik andauernd durch Werbung zu unterbrechen!!!

[@user-tz8lo1xp8c]

2:17

[@user-xw5ws2wk8v]

그럼 70

[@goscott444]

_Somebody already reported this to Heifetz?_ 😁

[@michellesong7514]

the ochestra is terrible no feelings!! not sensitive !! actualry chung is another class!!!

[@user-fq6ml5kc7d]

지휘자가 감흥없이 지휘하니 역시 음악에 나타나네. 정경화 마에스트로는 여왕인데 반해서... The conductor plays with no exciting, but Kyung Wha is still Queen.

[@MyBadCatsagain]

Perhaps you are young and are not used the poor video and sound quality of 1972. This may translate to you as "no feelings!!" "not sensitive !!"

[@user-pk6li5sf9v]

ヤッパすごい!チョンキョンファ

[@user-en5mi9vp3x]

Завжди юна завжди прекрасна мить -вічність буття- ваше сприйняття лине до ...чутливих???? Людяних сонячних створінь

[@lotusbuds2000]

interesting......a lot of women players esp cellists...wow

[@b980620]

팀파니 소리는 들리지를 않아요! 팀파니 소리는 연주자 자신에게만 들리면 되나요? 저- 뒤에서 게다가 극히 여린 소리라서 들릴리 만무하죠! D음으로 p 하나인데....

[@79violin]

잉? 우린 유툽으로 보는거구. 1972년 당시 비디오 녹화헤서 다시 디지탈로 담았을텐데 실황에서의 울림이 여기까지 고스란히 담져지리라곤 생각안해요.

[@robotnik77]

The conducting is a bit erratic IMHO. I wish he'd follow the performer better - it's like he wants to do his own thing - it IS a violin concerto, after all.