Pianist Kun Wook Paik (featured on our January 2016 release The French Influence) made his New York Philharmonic subscription-series debut this month, and New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini was on hand for the performance:
“On Thursday at David Geffen Hall, the distinguished Korean pianist Kun Woo Paik, 70, made an overdue New York Philharmonic subscription-series debut, as the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor. Backed by the veteran Czech conductor Jiri Belohlavek, Mr. Paik gave a masterly account of this familiar work, playing with unusually warm and penetrating sound, and dispensing fleet passagework with articulate grace. … His performance on Thursday was a model of how to draw a rich, rounded tone from the piano without any apparent effort. His magisterial approach to the piece, matched by Mr. Belohlavek and the orchestra, may have lacked surface excitement. But he conveyed the structural arc and dramatic sweep compellingly. There was a touch of impishness in his sprightly playing of the Rondo finale.” —Anthony Tommasini, New York Times
