Kim: Violin Concerto / Dialogues / Cornet
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EARL KIM
Kim: Violin Concerto / Dialogues / Cornet
Cecylia Arzewski (violin) / Ireland RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Scott Yoo
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 15 August 2019
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Earl Kim was born in 1920 in Dinuba, California and studied with Arnold Schoenberg, Ernst Bloch, and Roger Sessions. He was a professor at Princeton from 1952 to 1967 and at Harvard from then until 1998, and was the recipient of numerous awards and commissions. He died of lung cancer in 1998.
As a composer Earl Kim was a master craftsman and an unabashed romantic. He had a deep familiarity with the language of Western classical music but also found inspiration elsewhere in Korean folk-song, a Japanese rock garden, the Javanese gamelan, a musicbox lullaby, the whirling dervishes. Despite the variety of his sources his pointed and economical voice is always unique and recognisable, his music always beautifully made and immediately appealing.
"Cecylia Arzewski played in the 1979 world premiere of Earl Kim's Violin Concerto, as a Boston Symphony section violinist. The soloist was Itzhak Perlman, who commissioned and later recorded it (on EMI). As ASO concertmaster, Arzewski stepped into the solo part in Symphony Hall in 2001, and now she's cut her own recording with an Irish orchestra --- and it's more convincing than Perlman's.
Kim (1920-1988) was a gentle modernist and an eclectic. The concerto brushes musical impressionism, Indonesian gamelan and gutsy, high-powered violin playing. Where Perlman's buttery tone and dominating ego jarred with the accompaniment's spare, shimmering textures, Arzewski's bright, lean sound fits within the orchestral tapestry. With solid accompaniment from Dublin's RTE National Symphony Orchestra, she plays it almost like a Baroque concerto grosso, where the solo voice steps in and out of the larger group." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
