Lucerne Festival
NEW YORK TIMES 09/09/2009 --- Mr. Boulez conducted the academy's chamber orchestra in „Déserts" by Varèse, a marvelous, prickly, evocateive work rewarding a dedicated listener's full patience, followed by the almost mathematically complex "Kammerkonzert" for piano, violin and 13 winds by Berg, with Yefim Bronfman and Hae-Sun Kang as the soloists. Afterward the crowd repeatedly called the players back to the stage for enthusiastic ovations.
LA REGIONE TICINO 02/09/2009 --- Lucerne Festival, Kammerkonzert by Alban Berg - Bravo to the interpreters: the 13 wind instruments, the pianist Yefim Bronfman and the violinist Hae-Sun Kang. I add here a special mention for the beauty of the magnificent sound of the violin.
on Ligeti's Violin Concerto
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/5/2009 --- Hae-Sun Kang showed exemplary control in the work's more athletic passages but also brought an affecting tenderness to the second movement's unambiguously lovely Aria, a melody played entirely on the G string.
Seen and Heard International Festival Review
Hubert Culot, 11/3/2007 --- Hae-Sun Kang's playing was simply stunning, and she negotiated her part with aplomb, immaculate technique and remarkable musicality.
Violin concerto by Unsuk Chin at Musica Strasbourg
DIAPASON, December 2007 --- This series reaches its peak with the fantastic Concerto for Violin in a perfect balance between soloist and orchestra. Hae-Sun Kang is the ideal performer for such texture (...).
LE MONE DE LA MUSIQUE, November 2007 --- (...) the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2001) characterised by flexible sounds, richness of timbres and iridescent harmonies is an absolute pleasure in the intensive and subtle rendition by the violinist Hae-Sun Kang, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Marc Albrecht.
KÖLNISCHE RUNDSCHAU, 30/4/2007 --- Berio composed a solo piece for nearly every orchestral instrument. He explored very artfully the sound range of the instruments, perfectly shown by oboist László Hadany and Korean violinist Hae-Sun Kang, who performed brilliantly - dense, concentrated, highly virtousic and well familiar with the hazardous techniques required by the piece. In the Corale as well, she mastered her challenging part with imperturbable certitude.
INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW, 2001 --- Anthèmes II is the most recognizably Boulezian piece here, elaborating a single violin line that of Anthèmes into a spiralling sequence of violin sonorities. The spatial mobility facilitated by live electronics in Répons and ... explosante-fixe ... is further refined, giving a dynamic immediacy to the strophic sequences and a multi-dimensional ambience to the 'Libre' refrains which separate them. Section VI/2 (track 14) synthesizes the timbral contrasts to magical effect aided by the fastidious playing of Hae-Sun Kang's and Andrew Gerzso's sensitive realization.
KÖLNISCHE RUNDSCHAU, February 2000 --- Fascinating and exciting. Equally, Anthèmes by Boulez, performed by the Korean Hae-Sun Kang (...). As in a kaleidoscope, keys are harmonised, dissolved in pizzicato patterns, arranged as soundscapes, but never alienated from the familiar sound of the violin. Contemporary music can be beautiful.
KÖLNER STADTANZEIGER, February 2000 --- The South Korean violinist Hae-Sun Kang, like Gallois also member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, performed Anthèmes 2 by Boulez (1991/94). (...) Hae-Sun Kang communicated in a sensitively perfect performance with transformation and extension of sound in space: delicate resonances, harmonization and reproductions envelope delightful phrases, sharp bowings and passionate melody onsets with a delicately spun aura.
NEW YORK TIMES 09/09/2009 --- Mr. Boulez conducted the academy's chamber orchestra in „Déserts" by Varèse, a marvelous, prickly, evocateive work rewarding a dedicated listener's full patience, followed by the almost mathematically complex "Kammerkonzert" for piano, violin and 13 winds by Berg, with Yefim Bronfman and Hae-Sun Kang as the soloists. Afterward the crowd repeatedly called the players back to the stage for enthusiastic ovations.
LA REGIONE TICINO 02/09/2009 --- Lucerne Festival, Kammerkonzert by Alban Berg - Bravo to the interpreters: the 13 wind instruments, the pianist Yefim Bronfman and the violinist Hae-Sun Kang. I add here a special mention for the beauty of the magnificent sound of the violin.
on Ligeti's Violin Concerto
THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/5/2009 --- Hae-Sun Kang showed exemplary control in the work's more athletic passages but also brought an affecting tenderness to the second movement's unambiguously lovely Aria, a melody played entirely on the G string.
Seen and Heard International Festival Review
Hubert Culot, 11/3/2007 --- Hae-Sun Kang's playing was simply stunning, and she negotiated her part with aplomb, immaculate technique and remarkable musicality.
Violin concerto by Unsuk Chin at Musica Strasbourg
DIAPASON, December 2007 --- This series reaches its peak with the fantastic Concerto for Violin in a perfect balance between soloist and orchestra. Hae-Sun Kang is the ideal performer for such texture (...).
LE MONE DE LA MUSIQUE, November 2007 --- (...) the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2001) characterised by flexible sounds, richness of timbres and iridescent harmonies is an absolute pleasure in the intensive and subtle rendition by the violinist Hae-Sun Kang, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Marc Albrecht.
KÖLNISCHE RUNDSCHAU, 30/4/2007 --- Berio composed a solo piece for nearly every orchestral instrument. He explored very artfully the sound range of the instruments, perfectly shown by oboist László Hadany and Korean violinist Hae-Sun Kang, who performed brilliantly - dense, concentrated, highly virtousic and well familiar with the hazardous techniques required by the piece. In the Corale as well, she mastered her challenging part with imperturbable certitude.
INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW, 2001 --- Anthèmes II is the most recognizably Boulezian piece here, elaborating a single violin line that of Anthèmes into a spiralling sequence of violin sonorities. The spatial mobility facilitated by live electronics in Répons and ... explosante-fixe ... is further refined, giving a dynamic immediacy to the strophic sequences and a multi-dimensional ambience to the 'Libre' refrains which separate them. Section VI/2 (track 14) synthesizes the timbral contrasts to magical effect aided by the fastidious playing of Hae-Sun Kang's and Andrew Gerzso's sensitive realization.
KÖLNISCHE RUNDSCHAU, February 2000 --- Fascinating and exciting. Equally, Anthèmes by Boulez, performed by the Korean Hae-Sun Kang (...). As in a kaleidoscope, keys are harmonised, dissolved in pizzicato patterns, arranged as soundscapes, but never alienated from the familiar sound of the violin. Contemporary music can be beautiful.
KÖLNER STADTANZEIGER, February 2000 --- The South Korean violinist Hae-Sun Kang, like Gallois also member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, performed Anthèmes 2 by Boulez (1991/94). (...) Hae-Sun Kang communicated in a sensitively perfect performance with transformation and extension of sound in space: delicate resonances, harmonization and reproductions envelope delightful phrases, sharp bowings and passionate melody onsets with a delicately spun aura.
Photo: Aymeric Warmé-Janville
Photo: Aymeric Warmé-Janville
Photo: Aymeric Warmé-Janville