Artist(s): Min, Klara
Label: Naxos
Genre: Instrumental
Period: 20th Century; Contemporary
Catalogue No: 8.572406
Barcode: 747313240678
Release Date: 07/2011

Piano Recital: Min, Klara - YUN, Isang / KANG, Sukhi / CHAE, Uzong / KIM, Chung-gil / PAGH-PAAN, Younghi (Ripples on Water - Piano Music from Korea)

Award-winning pianist Klara Min has been recognized for her “excellent technique, exuberance and vitality” (New York Concert review). Here she brings the unique synthesis of traditional sources and contemporary compositional techniques of five leading Korean composers. Their works range from descriptive serenity in Younghi Pagh-Paan’s Pa-mun, childhood simplicity in Chung Gil Kim’s Go Poong (‘Memory of Childhood’) and rhythmic and dynamic extremes in Sukhi Kang’s Piano Sketches. Pioneering figurehead Isang Yun is represented by his early expressionist Fünf Stücke and the much later improvisatory Interludium.

Tracklist

Pagh-Paan, Younghi
Min, Klara (piano)
1Pa-mun (Ripples on Water)05:46
Min, Klara (piano)
Yun, Isang
Min, Klara (piano)
2No. 1. Adagio, grazioso01:30
Min, Klara (piano)
3No. 2. Andantino, espressivo01:24
Min, Klara (piano)
4No. 3. Allegro moderato01:05
Min, Klara (piano)
5No. 4. Allegro01:10
Min, Klara (piano)
6No. 5. Allegretto01:15
Min, Klara (piano)
Min, Klara (piano)
7Interludium A13:07
Min, Klara (piano)
Kang, Sukhi
Min, Klara (piano)
8I. quarter note = ca. 4201:54
Min, Klara (piano)
9II. dotted quarter note = ca. 8001:59
Min, Klara (piano)
10III. quarter note = ca. 12001:34
Min, Klara (piano)
Chae, Uzong
Min, Klara (piano)
11Prelude No. 203:57
Min, Klara (piano)
12Prelude No. 703:28
Min, Klara (piano)
13Prelude No. 803:28
Min, Klara (piano)
Kim, Chung-gil
Min, Klara (piano)
14No. 1. Hyang-hap07:41
Min, Klara (piano)
15No. 2. Namakshin01:44
Min, Klara (piano)
16No. 3. Okbinyo03:08
Min, Klara (piano)

Total Playing Time: 54:10