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Refinement and tragedy: Myung-Wung Chung and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

By Hazel Rowland, 29 August 2014
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“He tore the victory away with the entrance of the strings’ lamenting sigh”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 27 August 2014
Programme
Debussy, La Mer
Chin, Šu, Concerto for sheng and orchestra
Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique", Op.74
Performers
Wu Wei, Sheng
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Myung-whun Chung, Conductor
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Hazel Rowland
Hazel Rowland
Hazel is in her final year reading music at Oxford University. As well being a classical music reviewer, she has written arts commentary for the Oxford Student and reviewed plays at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her particular interests lies in early German Romantic music and in how classical music functions within contemporary popular culture. Follow her blog here.