Hai-Kyung Suh - Beethoven - Beautiful Encounter (2022)

Pianist Hai-Kyung Suh has won acclaim on four continents for her signature playing style, deeply rooted in the Russian Romantic tradition. Like few other artists before the public today, her combination of singing tone, rich color palette, and supreme virtuosity recalls the great pianists of yesteryear from Rachmaninoff and Hofmann to Cherkassky and Bolet, causing critics like the one for the Asahi Shinbun of Tokyo to exclaim over "a passionate musicality and dramatic expressiveness rarely seen." In that same grand tradition, her profound understanding of musical structure gives her performances a particularly compelling quality; reviewing Ms. Suh’s New York recital debut, Tim Page in the New York Times described a "propulsive and exciting performance, built block by block with the structural command of a musical architect."

Track List:
01. Beethoven: Rondo in C Major, Op. 51 No. 1
02. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": I. Grave - Allegro di molto e con brio
03. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": II. Adagio cantabile
04. Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": III. Rondo. Allegro
05. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto
06. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": II. Allegretto
07. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": III. Presto agitato
08. Piano Sonata No. 23 In F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": I. Allegro assai
09. Piano Sonata No. 23 In F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": II. Andante con moto
10. Piano Sonata No. 23 In F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": III. Allegro ma non troppo
11. Piano Sonata No. 23 In F Minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata": Beethoven: Für Elise (Bagatelle in A Minor), WoO 59
12. Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 3, La Campanella