The Chungs play Tchaikovsky & Beethoven

Myung-Whun Chung (piano), Myung-Wha Chung (cello), Kyung-Wha Chung (violin), Myung-Wha Chung (cello) & Myung-Whun Chung (piano & conductor)

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit

exuberant […] Chung adds even more fizz to the Tchaikovsky than she did on her glowing version with Prevn right at the beginning of her career — Gramophone Magazine, December 1983 More…

Release Date: 6th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: ELQ4822085
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

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Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23

Work length21:22

Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 1979-08
Recording Venue: Royce Hall, University Of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.)

1. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Allegro con spirito

Track length21:22

Excerpt, Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23

Work length25:30

Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 1979-08
Recording Venue: Royce Hall, University Of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.)

2. Andantino semplice - Prestissimo - Tempo I

Track length17:55

3. Allegro con fuoco

Track length7:35

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Work length6:28

Myung-Wha Chung (cello)
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 1979-08
Recording Venue: Royce Hall, University Of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.)

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35

Work length35:20

Kyung Wha Chung (violin)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit
Recorded: 1981-07-17
Recording Venue: L'Eglise de St. Eustache, Montreal

1. Allegro moderato

Track length7:19

2. Canzonetta (Andante)

Track length10:25

3. Finale (Allegro vivacissimo)

Track length17:36

Beethoven: Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, and Cello in C major, Op. 56

Work length36:28

Kyung Wha Chung (violin), Myung-Wha Chung (cello), Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
Chung Trio, Philharmonia Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung
Recorded: 1996-04
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

1. Allegro

Track length18:45

2. Largo

Track length5:20

3. Rondo alla Polacca

Track length12:23

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Most parents will assert that siblings do not always play well together, but classical music gives many examples to the contrary. Although violinist Yehudi Menuhin was the most famous member of his family, he performed and made several recordings with his sisters, Hephzibah and Yaltah, both pianists. (Pianist Marcel Ciampi, who taught both sisters, remarked that their mother’s womb ‘was a veritable conservatory’.)

This 2CD set brings together the Tchaikovsky recordings made individually by the three members of the Chung Trio – all, of course, outstanding musicians in their own right. All are partnered by Charles Dutoit, and the recordings of the Piano Concerto and the Rococo Variations appear internationally on CD for the first time. Myung-Whun Chung is featured in the dual roles of conductor and pianist in the recording of Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto.

Reviews

December 1983

exuberant […] Chung adds even more fizz to the Tchaikovsky than she did on her glowing version with Prevn right at the beginning of her career

March 1981

in a consistently refreshing and poetic reading of a warhorse concerto [Myung-Whun Chung] shows that his keyboard technique is as formidable as when he was a prizewinner in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. […] The power of the playing is never in doubt […] the central prestissimo [in the second movement] has rarely been recorded with a more genuine pianissimo. The finale sparkles’ (Piano Concerto) […] an exquisitely beautiful account of the loveliest variation of all, the Andante sotenuto

2005

The Chungs make a characterful trio and give a very fine account of the Triple Concerto which conveys a feeling of spontaneous chamber-playing, with the finale taken thrillingly fast, with sparkling results

The Chungs play Tchaikovsky & Beethoven

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