Yeol Eum Son Piano Solo Recital @ Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 15 Aug 2023

Yeol Eum Son Piano Solo Recital

0:00 Bizet Variations chromatiques
9:26 Czerny Variations on Pierre Rode’s Ricordanza
19:42 Liszt ‘Ricordanza’ from the Transcendental Etudes
29:28 Alkan Variations on a Theme of Steibelt
39:41 Beethoven Piano Sonata No 29 Op 106 ‘Hammerklavier’, I. Allegro
50:44 II. Scherzo: Assai Vivace
53:30 III. Adagio Sostenuto
1:10:07 IV. Introduzione: Largo... Allegro – Fuga: Allegro Risoluto

11:00 am to 1:00 pm, 15 Aug 2023

Listen on BBC Radio 3 (copy and paste them on a new tab in your browser) :
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(Adapted from the Scotsman)
"If the ultimate destination of Yeol Eum Son’s solo recital was Beethoven’s monumental Hammerklavier Sonata, the route towards it was no less daunting, though usefully less intense. The journey travelled back in time, not strictly chronologically, but featuring in the first half work by composers whose future indebtedness to Beethoven ranged from the directly personal to a more distant adherence.

"The South Korean pianist opened with a side to Bizet we don’t often see, his coruscating Variations Chromatiques, rising from squirming, protean darkness to the dizzy bright lights of successive variations. Czerny’s 'La Ricordanza’ Variations offered a more settling contrast, paving the way for the beguiling charm of Liszt’s similarly-titled Transcendental Study No 9, and ending the first half with Alkan’s Variations on a Theme of Steibelt. To this point, Son’s effervescent musicality had us gripped.

"As for the Beethoven, Son addressed its bombastic rhetoric, belligerent unpredictability and ferocious virtuosity with electrifying bravado. In answer to the heated discourse of the opening movement, the scherzo danced. But if her slow movement oozed purity and serenity she fell short in fully embracing its otherworldly magic. What a finale, though, its ballistic fugue beaten into submission, the final gravitational chord reverberating in utter defiance."

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