SCHUMANN Fantasie
Piano Sonata No.1
CHLOE MUN, Piano
Deutsche Grammophon 481 632-2 / ****1/2
By
winning both the Geneva and Busoni International Piano Competitions in 2015,
the young Korean pianist Chloe Jiyeong Mun has been compared with the legendary
Argentine Martha Argerich (who accomplished that same feat in 1957), but that
is selling her short.
The back-story is that she was born to severely
handicapped parents and raised on government social support. Playing on school
and church-owned pianos, she honed her art to an astonishing degree that is
evident in the 22-year old's all-Schumann debut disc.
Robert
Schumann's First Piano Sonata in F sharp minor (Op.11) and Fantasie in
C major (Op.17) are sprawling and ambitious works which require that extra
spark of imagination and flair to bring the pages to life. Mun possesses the
technical wherewithal and physical reserve to withstand the longeuers, even in
the meandering and repetitious finale of Op.11, or the treacherous octave leaps
in the central movement of Op.17.
Her chief rival in these works is not
Argerich, but the Italian Maurizio Pollini (also on Deutsche Grammophon) who
reveals a darker edge and doggedness to the music in his celebrated 1970s
recordings. She however has a wonderful filler in Blumenstück (Flower
Piece), which is most prettily performed.
2 comments:
she is amazing
đàn piano cũ
Chloe Mun is a musician of the highest calibre.
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