Ravel Concertos - Bach... - Yeol Eum Son - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Yeol Eum Son masterfully captures the ambivalent character of the two Ravel's Piano Concertos, almost merging them into one. Under her fingers, an equal, discreet obscurity is revealed as much in one as in the other. Led by their musical director Anja Bihlmaier, the musicians of the Residentie Orkest The Hague offer the pianist (born in 1986) lyrical phrasing and beautiful nocturnal atmospheres. For the Korean pianist, Ravel’s Concertos evokes the horrors of the Great War as much as a moment in her country’s history, the wars that shook the European continent at the beginning of the 20th century echoing her nation’s first independence movements. In the form of a postlude, the four pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach presented here in arrangements for the left hand alone by Paul Wittgenstein, form more than an escape. They constitute, after the horrors of the destruction, the real moment of reparation.

Label: Naive | Origin: Holland