Friday, January 20, 2017

James Kim and Jinhee Park

Juilliard's 188th Sonatenabend at Paul Hall

 

Last night it was impossible not to attend the Juilliard’s 188th Sonatenabend. After Poulenc’s sonata for clarinet and piano, a vaudeville of cello sonatas commenced, with one immaculate performance following another: Beethoven’s cello variations on Mozart, Prokofiev’s sonata in C major and Schuman’s crazy “Pieces in Folk Style.” The unexpected finale was the Chopin Polonaise Brillante for cello and piano which was played by the prodigiously talented young cellist James Jeonghwan Kim and the equally brilliant pianist Jinhee Park. As usual with those two, their performance was followed by a stunned silence before the audience went wild, screaming, stamping, whistling and howling. The performers themselves seemed quite pleased to have driven the crowd mad, so we all went home happy.

Watch James Jeonghwan Kim play Rostropovich's Humoresque Op. 5, with Ji Won Ahn (piano):



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