Recording bach’s “whole sonatas and partitas for solo violin” (bwv 1001-1006) separates the amateur violists from the professionals.
Some of the greats that have recorded this technically complicated solo piece that lasts for about two hours encompass Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, Henryk Szeryng, and Arthur grumiaux. While younger violinists inspire themselves to work challenging with this purpose in their minds.
Korean-german musician Clara-jumi Kang, 34, is taking a step toward achieving the feat with the aid of presenting the entire cycle in one performance.
Beginning with a performance during Daejeon on May 25, Kang will keep a sequence of concerts providing bach’s “complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin” throughout Korea. After the Daejeon concert, she’ll tour Daegu on May 26 after Seoul on May 31. Her Seoul concert is ready to take vicinity at the lotte live performance hall at 7:30 p.M. while the very last live performance may be held on June 1 on the Gyeonggi arts middle.
Lots of her fanatics say it’s approximately time that Kang plays the complete cycle of Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin as she’s already a well-installed violinist appearing actively with leading orchestras around the sector. Likewise, she is the winner of the 2010 Indianapolis worldwide violin competition and received first prize at both the 2009 Seoul violin competition, including the 2010 Sendai violin competition.
Kang says she wanted to bring her time and perform the piece in front of a target audience at “the right moment.”
She became one of the many classical musicians who had been forced to go back to their motherlands due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, she says she took that as a signal that the moment is right.
Each day, the Korea Joong Ang interviewed Kang through electronic mail previous to the kick-off of her live performance series. The subsequent are edited excerpts.
Q. You need to carry out solo for two hours straight, and the piece is understood to be physically and mentally worrying. How are you getting ready for it?
A. For me, the challenge is attempting to keep the same attention at some stage in the entire hours, and the best way to reap that is through practice. I assume that going over the whole cycle from the beginning to the stop as though it’s an actual performance is extra beneficial than looking to consciousness on the precise moves.
