Mao Fujita’s Mozart and Myung‑whun Chung’s Fantastique in Seoul

Mao Fujita and the KBS Symphony Orchestra

Myung-whun Chung and the KBS Symphony Orchestra

Par SangKwon Lee, 31 août 2025

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“the most telling virtuosity came from a refusal to grandstand”

Critique faite à Seoul Arts Center: Concert Hall, Seoul, le 29 août 2025

Mozart, Concerto pour piano no. 25 en ut majeur, K503

Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, Op.14

Mao Fujita, Piano

KBS Symphony Orchestra

Myung-whun Chung, Direction

Myung‑whun Chung launches a new KBS Symphony chapter in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 16th January

In Myung-whun Chung’s first concert as the orchestra’s tenth Music Director, Leonidas Kavakos’ account of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is built on exposure rather than varnish.

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Markus Stenz conducts three monumental 20th-century scores in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 18th July

Propulsive Prokofiev from pianist Dmitry Shishkin between Ravel’s hypnotic minimalism and Schoenberg’s late-Romantic complexity.

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A night of bold strokes: Orozco-Estrada and Josefowicz in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 22nd May

By the close of the performance, one sensed that the audience’s exhilaration stemmed less from polished execution and more from a shared immersion in the music’s dramatic arc—elements that lingered as the defining memory of this eventful evening.

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Unity in Sound: Myung-whun Chung leads KBS and Tokyo Phil in Mahler 1

SangKwon Lee, 3rd March

Like the grainy intensity of a high-contrast black-and-white photograph, these rugged edges accentuated Mahler’s expressive extremes, reaffirming the conductor’s innate flair for crafting a grand aesthetic narrative within the symphony’s expansive architecture.

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Redemptive Mahler 2 from Myung-whun Chung in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 21st February

Myung-whun Chung and the KBS Symphony Orchestra tackle Mahler’s monumental Resurrection Symphony at the Seoul Arts Center.

***11

Soirée hors normes à Toulouse avec Vengerov, Chung et le Tokyo Phil

Thibault d'Hauthuille, 3rd November

Dans des tubes de Tchaïkovski et Prokofiev, l'orchestre, son directeur musical honoraire et son soliste invité ont été éblouissants.

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SangKwon Lee

SangKwon Lee is a Seoul-based classical music critic whose writing focuses on concert performances and recordings. A contributor to Gramophone and a member of the Music Critics Association of North America, he covers the classical music scene in Korea and internationally.

Clarity as drama: Mao Fujita’s Mozart and Myung‑whun Chung’s Fantastique