Chung Kyung Wha

Kyung Wha Chung, Phillip Moll - Con Amore (2010)  Music

Posted by at June 13, 2024
Kyung Wha Chung, Phillip Moll - Con Amore (2010)

Kyung Wha Chung, Phillip Moll - Con Amore (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 305 MB | 59:59
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca

A quick glance at the heading tells the knowledgeable reader that most of what we have here are well-known lollipops. They exist in literally hundreds of recordings. Everybody will have his/her favourite pieces played by one or several of the violin greats through the last eight decades. The reissue of this twenty-year-old recital at budget price poses the question: is it worth adding yet another collection? The answer should be an unequivocal “Yes!”, since Chung is one of the stars of fairly recent times. Even before putting the disc in the CD player one knows that these will be technically impeccable readings, played with great musicality, refinement and commitment – elegant but never bland.

Kyung Wha Chung - Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Dec. 10, 2019
Kyung Wha Chung - Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)

Kyung Wha Chung - Bartók: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:05 | 305 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca | Catalog: 4250152

Chung’s performance blazes with energy and commitment, and is brilliantly backed up by Solti and the LPO. If the violinist errs at all, it is in trying to put swagger into the opening subject of the first movement by leaning into its accents and dishing out some rather heavy portamento. The result sounds unduly Romanticized. But in the rapt second movement Chung is exquisite, and she turns in an electrifying account of the finale, abetted by Solti’s energetic prodding of the orchestra.
Kyung Wha Chung - Max Bruch -Violin Concerto No. 1, Scottish Fantasy (1999)

Kyung Wha Chung - Max Bruch -Violin Concerto No. 1, Scottish Fantasy (1999)
Classical | EAC| FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | 256 MB | 3 Files | 1 CD | Complete 300 dpi Scans
Label:Penguin/DECCA | RAR 3% Rec. | Rapidshare

Kyung Wha Chung - Max Bruch -Violin Concerto No. 1, Scottish Fantasy (1999)

Chung's recording of two beloved Bruch (pieces) is filled with fervent youthful energy and at the same time fragile delicacy. Chung's ability to express the powerful energy not forgetting the detail always amazes me. Simply, the two Bruch recrdings are such a beauty that no word can describe.
One of the best classical cds!
Kyung Wha Chung does a wonderful job of expressing the small details of Max Bruch… All the energy is expressed, just as Bruch intended it to. A must have for all classical collections.- Amazon Reviewer
Kyung-Wha Chung, St Luke's Chamber Ensemble - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2001)

Kyung-Wha Chung, St Luke's Chamber Ensemble - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2001)
MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) | 41:06 | 101 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics

Admirers of Kyung-Wha Chung will hardly mind the poor value in time-length (Kennedy, also on EMI, does not have a coupling, either), when it so winningly adds to Chung’s discography. It is the more welcome when, since her switch from Decca to EMI, new recordings from her have been all too few. This is an unashamedly traditional performance, one which has little or no regard for period practice, but gives us a sequence of four concertos in warmly relaxed readings. Unlike those of Kennedy and Mutter they avoid extreme speeds, either fast or slow.
Kyung Wha Chung - Mendelssohn, Bruch: Violin Concertos (1999)

Kyung Wha Chung - Mendelssohn, Bruch: Violin Concertos (1999)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 417 MB | 01:17:59
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca Legends

Kyung Wha Chung's career was launched with a series of LPs made for Decca in the early 1970s, revealing an artist of exceptional technique, insight and spontaneity. One of these contained this rich-sounding performance of the Bruch G minor Violin Concerto, recorded with Rudolf Kempe and the Royal Philharmonic in 1972. It is still one of the freshest and most vital readings of this piece around, as Chung seems to know exactly where to draw the line between precision and abandon, the playing always seeming felt rather than planned, perhaps the highest achievement for a virtuoso. The 1981 recording of the Mendelssohn is a sheer delight, with fast tempos giving the work an extra sparkle, something the soloist obviously relishes.

Kyung Wha Chung - Mendelssohn, Bruch: Violin Concertos (1999)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at June 12, 2024
Kyung Wha Chung - Mendelssohn, Bruch: Violin Concertos (1999)

Kyung Wha Chung - Mendelssohn, Bruch: Violin Concertos (1999)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 417 MB | 01:17:59
Genre: Classical | Label: Decca Legends

Kyung Wha Chung's career was launched with a series of LPs made for Decca in the early 1970s, revealing an artist of exceptional technique, insight and spontaneity. One of these contained this rich-sounding performance of the Bruch G minor Violin Concerto, recorded with Rudolf Kempe and the Royal Philharmonic in 1972. It is still one of the freshest and most vital readings of this piece around, as Chung seems to know exactly where to draw the line between precision and abandon, the playing always seeming felt rather than planned, perhaps the highest achievement for a virtuoso. The 1981 recording of the Mendelssohn is a sheer delight, with fast tempos giving the work an extra sparkle, something the soloist obviously relishes.

Kyung-Wha Chung - Bach: Complete Sonatas & Partitas (2016)  Music

Posted by LoveHive at Oct. 9, 2016
Kyung-Wha Chung - Bach: Complete Sonatas & Partitas (2016)

Kyung-Wha Chung - Bach: Complete Sonatas & Partitas (2016)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 02:16:55 | 332 MB
Label: Warner Classics

“I’m delighted to announce that I am so happy to be returning to the recording studio after many years for a series of exciting artistic projects. The first of these is the solo Sonatas & Partitas of J.S.Bach: a monumental task. This is the unending quest of my musical journey.” – Kyung Wha Chung
Kevin Kenner & Kyung Wha Chung - Beau Soir - Works for Violin & Piano by Fauré, Franck & Debussy (2018)

Kevin Kenner & Kyung Wha Chung - Beau Soir - Works for Violin & Piano by Fauré, Franck & Debussy (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 252 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 154 Mb | 01:06:55
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

The centrepiece of this French-themed recital by Kyung Wha Chung and Kevin Kenner is the splendid violin sonata by César Franck. It is a work long associated with Chung, described by the Financial Times as “one of the greatest violinists of the last half-century”. Newer to Chung’s repertoire is Fauré’s Sonata No 1. As she told Strings magazine, each of the works constitutes “a whole portrait of life itself,” and she drew a comparison with Monet’s paintings: “The reflection of light has endless possibility. The same thing applies to the texture and the sound when you’re playing. There are millions of sounds.”

Kyung-Wha Chung - Bach: Complete Sonatas & Partitas (2016) [TR24][OF]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Dec. 15, 2016
Kyung-Wha Chung - Bach: Complete Sonatas & Partitas (2016) [TR24][OF]

Kyung-Wha Chung - Bach: Complete Sonatas & Partitas
Classical | FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | 136:55 min | 2.51 GB | Digital booklet
Label: Warner Classics | Tracks: 27 | Rls.date: 2016

“I’m delighted to announce that I am so happy to be returning to the recording studio after many years for a series of exciting artistic projects.The first of these is the solo Sonatas & Partitas of J.S.Bach: a monumental task. This is the unending quest of my musical journey.” – Kyung Wha Chung
Chung Trio, Philharmonia Orchestra, Patrick & Pascal Gallois - Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Romances (1998)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Romance in E minor; Violin Romances (1998)
Kyung-Wha Chung, violin; Myung-Wha Chung, cello; Patrick Gallois, flute; Pascal Gallois, bassoon
Philharmonia Orchestra; Myung-Whun Chung, conductor & piano

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 241 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 128 Mb | Scans ~ 53 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 453 488-2 GH | Time: 00:55:45

Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, completed about the same time as the Eroica Symphony, has suddenly become popular. One reason for its previous lack of popularity was the fact that three soloists cost three times as much as one normally expensive pianist, violinist or cellist. Another reason is that the work seeks to be a popular success, hence the Rondo alla Polacca with which it concludes. The piano part was intended for Beethoven’s patron and pupil, the Archduke Rudolph von Habsburg, and hence is less technically demanding than the composer’s usual pianistic writing, destined for himself. The standard CD (previously LP) of the work was a spectacular performance and recording made by EMI many years ago with David Oistrakh, Rostropovich and Richter with the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan. It was opulently played with the BPO’s luscious sound, but has little to do with what Beethoven would have heard in 1804. Another choice was the version of Stern, Rose and Serkin (Sony), less lush and not so high-powered as Karajan’s.