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SeoulSusanna Mälkki conducts Schubert's "The Great"

© Jiyang Chen
Bartók, Schubert
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra; Susanna Mälkki; Pierre-Laurent Aimard

BusanDreams. Rhapsody - National Symphony Youth Orchestra of Taiwan Busan Concert

© No credit
Rachmaninov, Mahler, Rossini, Saint-Saëns
National Symphony Youth Orchestra; Jun Märkl; Hyung-ki Joo; UN Peace Orchestra

SeoulJaap van Zweden conducts Respighi's "Pini di Roma"

© Roger Neve
Mozart, Jung Jae-il, Respighi
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra; Jaap van Zweden

SeoulSoo-Yeoul Choi conducts Scriabin's Fourth Symphony

© Marco Borggreve
Mozart, Lee, Scriabin
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra; Soo-Yeoul Choi; Kristian Bezuidenhout

SeoulJaap van Zweden conducts Mozart's "Jupiter"

© Universal Music
Mozart
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra; Jaap van Zweden; Renaud Capuçon; Yoonji Kang
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Orozco-Estrada, Bruce Liu and the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul

Bruce Liu, Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the KBS Symphony Orchestra © KBS Symphony Orchestra
Vivid, full-bodied Tchaikovsky, passionate without losing its grammar, on a persuasive night for the KBS Symphony Orchestra.
****1
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One moon, three waters: Yunchan Lim’s Mozart with Camerata Salzburg

Sunhae Im and Yunchan Lim © Shin-joong Kim | MOC
A pair of piano concertos envelop a concert aria as Yunchan Lim opens his Mozart project with poise and nerve in Seoul. 
*****
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Spacious Prokofiev from Seong-Jin Cho and the Munich Philharmonic

Lahav Shani conducts the Munich Philharmonic © Vincero | Won Hee Lee
Seong-Jin Cho’s premise in Prokofiev is compelling – to reconcile Russian gravitational attack and monumental construction with clarity, colour and contrapuntal legibility.
***11
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Sakari Oramo, Yeol Eum Son and the BBC Symphony in Seoul

Yeol Eum Son, Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony Orchestra © Hankyung Media Group
Yeol Eum Son’s Britten Piano Concerto formed the evening’s centre of gravity, played with lucid line, structural command and sudden fire. In Brahms’ Second Symphony, Sakari Oramo found conviction, proportion and a warmth that felt earned rather than applied.
****1
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Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic’s measured Mahler 6

The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra © Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
That last movement proves the evening’s true point of reckoning in the Seoul Philharmonic's performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony at Lotte Concert Hall. 
****1
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