Korean Sounds – East Meets West: Spring

Posted by: Hannah Giles  |  Posted on: March 29th, 2017

 

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East Meets West: Spring is the first concert of the Korean Sounds Series 2017, as part of the Korea/UK 2017-18 Season.

 

This series of concerts presents opportunities for audiences to hear both traditional Korean and classical music in one place.

 

The theme of the first concert is Spring. In the first half of this concert the Court Music Orchestra of the National Gugak Center will perform Korean music depicting a sense of spring and in the second half members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and pianist Chiao-Ying Chang will perform Gabriel Fauré’s first piano quartet and an arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s ‘Primavera Potena’ (Spring).

 

 

The details of the first concert are as follows:

 

Wednesday 12th April 2017 at 7.30pm

Kings Place, Hall One, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG

 

Programme

 

Cheonnyeongmanse

Saenghwang and Danso byeonju ‘Yeomyangchun’

Ujo Sijo ‘Nabiya (butterfly)’

String ensemble ‘Dodeuri’

Cheongseongjajinhannip

Gasa ‘Chunmyeongok (Spring Indolence)’

 

– Interval –

 

Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15

Piazzolla (arr. Clint Edwards) Primavera Porteña (Spring) for piano quartet

 

 

To book or for further details, please visit http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/music/east-meets-west-spring#.WNwtcG_yuM9

 

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