Korea Sounds – East Meets West Concert 2: Virtuosity
Posted by: Hannah Giles | Posted on: June 3rd, 2017
East Meets West: Virtuosity is the second instalment of the Korean Sounds Series 2017. 
Wednesday 21st June 2017 at 7.30pm
Kings Place, Hall One, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
This concert is all about virtuosity and highlights great masters of their instruments and their dazzling technical ability.
In the first half of the concert gayageum master Kyoung-A Moon (a member of the Folk Music Group at the National Gugak Center) will perform a Kim Juk-Pa Gayageum Sanjo – solo music for the gayageum, a 12-stringed zither. Sanjo starts in a slow tempo and gradually gets faster and ends with a very fast rhythm, giving the soloist ample opportunity to show the various aspects of the instrument whilst creating a memorable performance for the audience.
In the second half pianist Sunwook Kim, who many of us know as the winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, plays Années de pèlerinage II, S.161 Italie by Lizst. Lizst ‘created’ a new piano technique and many of his piano compositions are still amongst the most technically challenging.
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Programme
Kim Juk-Pa Gayageum Sanjo
– Dasreum, Jinyang, Jungmori, Jungjungmori, Jajinmori, Hwimori, Sesanjosi
Liszt Années de pèlerinage II, S.161 Italie
1. Sposalizio (Marriage of the Virgin, a painting by Raphael) in E
2. Il penseroso (The Thinker, a statue by Michelangelo) in C-sharp minor
3. Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (Canzonetta of Salvator Rosa; this song Vado ben spesso cangiando loco was in fact written by Giovanni Bononcini) in A
4. Sonetto 47 del Petrarca (Petrarch’s Sonnet 47) in D flat
5. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Petrarch’s Sonnet 104) in E
6. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Petrarch’s Sonnet 123) in A flat
7. Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata (After Reading Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata) in D minor
