Bokyung Byun - Bokyung Byun Recital Album - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Praised for her poetic and dramatic interpretation, New York-based Korean pianist Yoojung Kim is a versatile pianist, improviser, arranger, musical curator, educator, chamber musician and collaborator. Ms. Kim has appeared in recital and as soloist with orchestras throughout Europe, the United States, and Asia. Yoojung Kim is currently a member of the Artist Faculty in Piano Studies at NYU Steinhardt.

Many people have been waiting for Behzod Abduraimov's performance of Prokofiev's second piano concerto - that powerful work which caused a scandal when it was first performed near St Petersburg in 1913 because it was considered too futuristic. The work that we hear today is a version that Prokofiev himself reconstructed and reworked in 1923, as his first version was burnt on his departure from Russia. Abduraimov gives a dazzling performance of the work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and it's conductor Vasily Petrenko. The Prokofiev stands in stark contrast to Alexey Shor's Piano Concerto No. 1, which was composed and first performed in 2023. Abduraimov embraces the juxtaposition of the two works Inchthe depth and complexity of Prokofiev's universe is set against Shor's more lyrical and accessible art each work reflects different facets of the human experience, and I think it's good to share this diversity of feelings, textures and moodsInch.

Young-Choon Park began her career as a child prodigy at age seven. Today as an adult with a fully mature talent she embarks on an ambitious recital series for Intim Musik. The first of the series features Park masterfully exploring favorites like Mozart's Sonata No. 11 in a major (K331) and Beethoven's Sonatas Nos. 17 and 23.