Piano Recital - The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Yeol Eum Son made her recording debut in 2004 with a complete set of Chopin’s Études, the same year she performed Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel during the orchestra’s tour to South Korea. She is a prize-winner at both the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Among her solo recital repertoire are Mozart’s Fantasia in C minor—one of his most daring and adventurous piano works, late Brahms, one of the earliest pieces in Arvo Pärt’s tintinnabuli style, and the demonic magnificence of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz No. 1. She will also play one of Ravel’s favorites among his own piano works, Valses nobles et sentimentales.

Programme:

MOZART: Fantasia for Piano in C minor, K. 475
BRAHMS: Klavierstücke for Piano, Op. 118
PÄRT: Variations for the Healing of Arinushka for Piano
RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales
LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No. 1, “Der Tanz in Der Dorfshenke,” S. 514