Piano Solo – Yeol Eum Son
Sunday 23 November 2025 15.00Photo: Marco Borggreve
About the concert
På svenskaThe South Korean pianist in music by Rachmaninov and other legendary pianist-composers.
The truly outstanding pianists possess a rare ability to convey the very soul of the music – through touch, phrasing, dynamics and energy. A kind of magic. South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is among this select group. Her playing is marked by a rare poetic elegance, combined with power and a bold sense of drama.
In this recital, she performs Rachmaninov’s often dazzlingly virtuosic Preludes, Op. 32 – inspired by Frédéric Chopin’s celebrated preludes, where each piece seems to unfold from a single musical idea. Composed in the autumn of 1910, the preludes share stylistic traits with his magnificent Third Piano Concerto, completed just shortly beforehand.
The ever-curious Yeol Eum Son also presents a fascinating set of works by legendary pianists who were also composers. Among them are the stylish Minuet by Polish pianist Ignaz Paderewski, Alicia de Larrocha’s Sonata Antigua – imbued with the spirit of early Italian Baroque – and excerpts from Friedrich Gulda’s Play Piano Play, a playful cycle written for his wife.
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The music
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski Menuet, Sarabande and Caprice from Book I - à l’Antique för piano - Six humoresques de concert for piano op 1411 min
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Alicia de Larrocha Sonata antigua for piano3 min
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Wanda Landowska Feu follet for piano4 min
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Wanda Landowska Waltz for piano3 min
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Tatyana Nikolayeva Elegy for piano op 19:83 min
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Alexis Weissenberg Étude for piano (1943)3 min
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Friedrich Gulda Movement 7 Lento, molto tranquillo e piano and Movement 10 Allegro pesante from Play Piano Play for piano7 min
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Frank Churchill Reminiscences of Snow White for piano arr Earl Wild8 min
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Intermission25 min
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Serge Rachmaninoff 13 Preludes for piano op 3242 min
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Participants
- Yeol Eum Son piano