MOZART: Piano Works 2 Kun-Woo Paik

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Andante in F Major for Organ, K. 616:
• 1 Mozart: Andante in F Major for Organ, K. 616 (Played on Piano) 06:51
• Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K. 280:
• 2 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K. 280: I. Allegro assai 04:27
• 3 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K. 280: II. Adagio 06:06
• 4 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K. 280: III. Presto 03:20
• March in C Major, K. 408/1:
• 5 Mozart: March in C Major, K. 408/1 04:33
• Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330:
• 6 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330: I. Allegro moderato 06:48
• 7 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330: II. Andante cantabile 07:25
• 8 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K. 330: III. Allegretto 06:12
• Fantasia in C Minor, K. 396:
• 9 Mozart: Fantasia in C Minor, K. 396 (Compl. Stadler for Solo Piano) 10:07
• Total Runtime 55:49

Info for MOZART: Piano Works 2

Kun-Woo Paik's 'Mozart: Piano Works 2' is the second album in a trilogy of Mozart recordings, marking the first time he has released a Mozart recording in his 68-year piano career.

In addition to the familiar Piano Sonatas No. 2 and No. 10, the album includes the Fantasia in D minor, the March in C major, and the Andante in F major for organ, often considered Mozart's final work. These pieces showcase Baik Gun-woo's mature pianism and his profound interpretation of Mozart’s keyboard music.

For the cover artwork, a child previously selected through a public contest for 'Works 1' contributed once again, reflecting Baik’s desire to communicate with children through music. Listeners can expect to encounter Baik's playing at what is widely regarded as a pinnacle of depth and refinement in recent years.

Elegant in nature, the Mozart is complemented by Johannes Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto, the first work Brahms ever premiered from the piano! Although Brahms was only 25 when he composed the work, the melodies are mature and sophisticated. The piece was composed two years after Schumann's death and explores a complex set of emotions. Schumann played an important role in Brahms' life and it is hard to not see the connection between them in some of his works.

Kun Woo Paik was born in Seoul. He gave his first concert, aged 10, with the Korean National Orchestra, playing Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto. In the following years he performed many important works in Korea, including several premieres such as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Later he studied in New York, London, and in Italy with Rosina Lhevinne, Ilona Kabos, Guido Agosti and Wilhelm Kempff. Kun Woo Paik is also a laureate of the Naumburg and Busoni International Piano Competitions.

Kun Woo Paik, piano

Kun-Woo Paik
made his debut at age ten performing Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Korean National Orchestra. At 15 he moved to New York to study with Rosina Lhévinne at The Juilliard School, and he also studied in London, with Ilona Kabos, and in Italy, with Guido Agosti and Wilhelm Kempff. His international career took off following his first New York appearance, performing Ravel’s complete piano works at Lincoln Center, as well as his orchestral debut at Carnegie Hall. He has since collaborated with conductors including Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Long Yu, Neville Marriner, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Jiří Bĕlohlávek, Vladimir Jurowski, Dmitri Kitayenko, Paavo Järvi, Iván Fischer, and Krzysztof Penderecki (performing his new piano concerto under his direction). He has performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra (1987’s Last Night of the Proms), Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Berliner Symphoniker, Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Warsaw Philharmonic, and English Chamber Orchestra.

Kun Woo Paik’s recordings include works by Scriabin, Liszt, and Musorgsky, as well as the Rachmaninoff piano concerto cycle for BMG. His recording of the complete Prokofiev piano concertos received France’s Diapason d’Or 1993 and Nouvelle Académie du Disque awards. As an exclusive Decca artist, he recorded Busoni’s transcriptions of works by J.S. Bach, Fauré’s piano works (which won all the major prizes in France), and Chopin’s complete works for piano and orchestra (with Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic); in 2005 he began a project to record all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas.

Mr. Paik’s recent engagements include a Carnegie Hall recital, a performance at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Yuri Temirkanov, the complete Rachmaninoff concerto cycle in St. Petersburg, and returns to the New Japan Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, Shanghai Philharmonic, and Bergen Philharmonic. He has also given recitals in France, Italy, and Spain.

Kun Woo Paik, who lives in Paris, was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2002.

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