Violinist Kyung-Wha Chung is one of the great artists of the last 50 years. We have heard her in different facets of her art: as a concerto soloist; in works for solo violin and piano, and as a chamber musician.
Kyung-Wha Chung first made musical headlines in 1967, when she won the prestigious Leventritt Competition in New York. Today – following an enforced five-year break from performance, the consequence of an injury to her left hand – she continues to live up to her reputation as a passionate and probing virtuoso.
When, at the end of 2014, Chung played in London for the first time in over a decade, the Sunday Times wrote: “ … Still a sound of utter resplendency, a brilliantly shining tone right across the instrument; a projection to make light of the acoustic distances to be travelled; an ardour, physical, musical and spiritual, that seems undimmed by years … extraordinary music-making.”
Here is Ms. Chung in a wonderful performance of the Cesar Franck Violin Sonata:
