Piano Recital / Various - Piano Recital / Various - Music CD

HonggiKim, winner of the 2018 Jaen Prize International Piano Competition, has chosen a fascinating recitalprogrammefor his Naxos recording debut. BothScarboand Losrequiebrosare pillars of the piano repertoire, brimming with expressive and technical challenges for any performer, as is Carl Vine's beautifully written but rarely heard Piano Sonata No. 1. Sanchez-Verdu'sJardin deespejos('Garden of Mirrors') is influenced by the multiple layers in Islamic art, the 'mirrors' of the title lending shape to a tradition of listening, silence and echoes. Theprogrammeconcludes with Schumann's Piano Quintet in E flat major, an outstanding work in the chamber-music literature.