Brahms: Piano Concertos

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The South Korean pianist (who won the Leeds Piano Competition when he was just 18) and Elder seem to be in perfect synchrony for these immaculately-paced performances - the music is given so... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, May 2017 More…

Release Date: 5th May 2017
Catalogue No: CDHLD7546
Label: Hallé
Length: 98 minutes

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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15

Work length48:08

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Sunwook Kim
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder

I. Maestoso

Track length22:42

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II. Adagio

Track length13:36

$2.00

$2.80

$3.50

III Rondo - Allegro non troppo

Track length11:50

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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83

Work length50:51

Album only

Sunwook Kim, Nicholas Trygstad
Hallé Orchestra
Mark Elder

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length18:56

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II. Allegro appassionato

Track length9:14

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$2.10

$2.60

III. Andante

Track length13:04

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$2.80

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IV. Allegretto grazioso

Track length9:37

$1.50

$2.10

$2.60

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Hallé and Sir Mark Elder are reunited with Sunwook Kim in long awaited studio recordings of repertoire with which he won the Leeds Piano Competition.

London-based Sunwook Kim came to international recognition when he won the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006, aged just 18, becoming the competition’s youngest winner for 40 years, as well as its first Asian winner.

His performance of Brahms’s Concerto No.1 with Hallé and Sir Mark Elder in the competition’s finals attracted unanimous praise from the press. Since then, he has established a reputation as one of the finest pianists of his generation, appearing as a concerto soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras and in major recital venues in London, across Europe and in Japan.

Sunwook Kim has a lso enjoyed an ongoing relationship with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder, performing in a variety of repertoire across a number of seasons.

Here they return to Brahms’ two masterworks; pieces which were separated by two decades and which display very differing musical and emotional outlooks, from the more ardent First to the more rhapsodic Second.

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May 2017

The South Korean pianist (who won the Leeds Piano Competition when he was just 18) and Elder seem to be in perfect synchrony for these immaculately-paced performances - the music is given so much space to breathe and sing, so that the big climactic moments are thrown into even greater relief. The Hallé horns, in particular, are also at the top of their game.

7th May 2017

Elder paces each work perfectly, giving Kim room to breathe...There are more glorious orchestral colours in the monumental second concerto, with Kim in magisterial form, particularly in the driving allegro appassionato. This special alchemy is highly recommended.

Brahms: Piano Concertos

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