This year's international music event: the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth! Although the epidemic has greatly reduced the number of celebratory concerts around the world, it has not reduced the various commemorative performances on the Internet platform; the Opera House specially arranged the internationally renowned Korean pianist.
Baek Gun-woo to perform Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas in eight performances over eight days. The complete works allow classical music fans photo background removing to revisit Beethoven's creative life; also through Bai Jianyu's extraordinary piano sound, once again "Beethoven Project", travel through time and space to meet giants. "After you visited me that day, I thought about your question for a long time..." In August 2004, I visited Baek Gun-woo, a Korean pianist living in France, in Paris. For me, this is a dream come true. The first concert in my life that shocked me deeply, and since then I knew what kind of art piano performance can be, was Bai Jianyu's first visit to Taiwan in the second year of my country. Since then, I have tried to collect all his recordings, and he really has many recordings - Prokofev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Chopin's Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra,
WhatsApp_Image_2020-07-30_at_03_25_57 Photo Credit: Courtesy of Taichung National Opera House An interview question led to the Beethoven piano sonata recording project Just, why not Beethoven? I still remember Bai Jianyu's answer at that time: Playing Beethoven requires personality to speak one's own words in his music, and I'm not sure it's ready. I was studying in America at the time. In January 2005, the school sent a fax, and at first glance it was Bai Jianyu; when I saw it again, I couldn't believe my eyes! "I thought about your question again... Yes, I'm over 60, am I really not ready? Thinking about it again, I do have my own words to say, so I tol