Kyung Wha Chung plays Poldini Dancing Doll (La poupée valsante)

1997 marked Ms Chung’s 30th anniversary of her international debut, and she gave a series of celebratory concerts in her motherland, Japan and the UK; in Korea, it was consisted with the performances of Brahms concerto, Bach & Vivaldi concertos with the chamber orchestra organized for the occasion, and a duo recital with pianist Itamar Golan. Kyung-Wha Chung is most remembered by her passionate interpretation of major violin concertos, but it is through an evening of chamber recital that she shines all her characters and depth, which often can be overlooked under the grand scale of big concertos. This video record of the anniversary recital proves it to the point. Through 3 weighty main program of Brahms, Bartók and Schumann and down to 4 encores, she simply gives her all. For the second encore of the evening, she plays Poldini’s Dancing Doll; a moment of humour and lightheartedness in otherwise very serious evening. * the rest of the program from the same evening Brahms v