Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic impress on US tour

Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Bomsori Kim and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Von Susan Stempleski, 28 Oktober 2025

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“an impressive performance of an absorbing, beautifully balanced work”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City, am 27 Oktober 2025

Jung Jae-il, Inferno (US premiere)

Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Violinkonzert in e-Moll, Op.64

Kreisler, Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen: Schön Rosmarin

Rachmaninow, Symphonie Nr. 2 in e-Moll, Op.27

Dvořák, Slavonic Dance no. 8 in G minor, Op.46 no.8

Bomsori Kim, Violine

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Jaap van Zweden, Musikalische Leitung

Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic’s measured Mahler 6

SangKwon Lee, 19th March

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.

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Rhetoric over romance in Nikolai Lugansky's Chopin in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 12th February

Ludovic Morlot conducts the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in three classics from the Romantic era: Berlioz, Chopin and Schumann.

***11

Jaap van Zweden tests Beethoven 9 in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 18th December

At the Seoul Arts Center, Jaap van Zweden treats Beethoven’s disputed metronome marks less as provocation than instruction, trading bloom for voltage in a driven Beethoven Ninth Symphony.

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Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic prepare for their US tour

SangKwon Lee, 1st October

The Seoul Philharmonic preview their forthcoming US-tour programme, featuring Bomsori Kim playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto.

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Line, rhythm and spectrum: Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic

SangKwon Lee, 26th September

As a pre‑tour snapshot, this concert proves was unambiguous: an orchestra intent on renewing the canon in the language of now rather than sealing it behind glass.

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Sculpted silences: Britten and Brahms under Jaap van Zweden in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 20th June

From the very first bars of Britten’s Violin Concerto, Augustin Hadelich impresses in Britten's Violin Concerto, yet Jaap van Zweden's Brahms 4 appears misaligned.

***11

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Susan Stempleski

Based in New York City, Susan is a retired specialist in second and foreign language teaching and the author/editor of several professional books for language teachers and many widely used textbooks for English language learners around the world. An avid concertgoer, she spends her time attending operas and other classical music events in New York and Paris. Since 2002, she has regularly published reviews on Classical Source. A keen Francophile, she has a particularly strong interest in French music, literature and film.

Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic launch US tour impressively at Carnegie Hall