Lucie Bartholomäi / Verena Louis FEMALE

 

FEMALE

 

Gould Piano Trio CLARKE - IVES - BEACH

 

CLARKE - IVES - BEACH

 

Anna Fedorova / Dana Zemtsov SILHOUETTES

SILHOUETTES

Soo-Min Lee / Hyo-Sun Lim CLARKE - VIEUXTEMPS Sonatas - Capriccio

At age 18, Soo-Min Lee already won 1st prize in Dong-A competition which is one of the biggest competitions in Korea.

She studied with Prof. En-sik Choi in Seoul National University and after she finished Bachelor, she continued her studies in Cologne with Prof. Rainer Moog. She finished her Diplom with distiction and Konzertexamen in Musikhochschule in Cologne.

From her devoting to contemporary music, she has participated in International Ensemble Modern Academy in 2008-09. Since then she plays in Ensemble Modern as a guest violist throuout many major concert halls in Europe. Recent engagement include appearences at Salzburg, Paris Salle Pleyel, Berlin Konzerthaus, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Roma Santa Cecilia, Milano among others.

She has been invited to Salzburg Music Festival,Verbier Music Festival, Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, Seoul Spring Festival of chamber music, and Tong-Young international music festival.

She has played as the 1st Principal Violist in Duisburger Philharmoniker/ Deutsche Oper am Rhein. And she has been invited as a guest principal violist to KBS symphony Orchestra and TIMF Orchestra in Seoul, Korea.

Recently she teaches in Seoul National University, Korea national university of arts and Inje University. Also as a member of Quartet Knecht who has recorded two CDs from Sony classical label.

Ellen Nisbeth / Bengt Forsberg LET BEAUTY AWAKE

Despite her youth, Ellen Nisbeth has received acclaim both in her native Sweden and abroad and is one of the Rising Stars selected by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) for the 2017/2018 season. A former student of London's Royal College of Music, she hails from a family of Scottish origin and feels a particular affinity for the landscapes of Scotland, and for the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

For her first recital disc Ellen Nisbeth has devised an all-British programme which includes her own transcriptions of selected songs from Songs of Travel – Ralph Vaughan Williams's settings of poems by Stevenson. The songs intersperse the remainder of the programme, and one of them – Let Beauty Awake – has also lent its title to the entire disc. Together with the eminent pianist and chamber musician Bengt Forsberg, Nisbeth goes on to perform the impassioned Viola Sonata composed in 1919 by Rebecca Clarke – a well-known piece among viola-players, but deserving of a wider audience.

The centrepiece of this amply filled disc is Benjamin Britten’s Third Suite for Cello, transcribed for viola by Ellen Nisbeth herself – composed for Mstislav Rostropovich, the suite is based on Russian themes which Britten only presents in full towards the end of the substantial work. The same method is used in Lachrymae, here in the original version for viola and piano, where John Dowland’s song If my complaints could passions move is presented in full at the very end of the piece.