Genre: Chamber music

Piano Solo – Yeol Eum Son

The South Korean pianist in music by Rachmaninov and other legendary pianist-composers.

The truly outstanding pianists possess a rare ability to convey the very soul of the music – through touch, phrasing, dynamics and energy. A kind of magic. South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is among this select group. Her playing is marked by a rare poetic elegance, combined with power and a bold sense of drama.

In this recital, she performs Rachmaninov’s often dazzlingly virtuosic Preludes, Op. 32 – inspired by Frédéric Chopin’s celebrated preludes, where each piece seems to unfold from a single musical idea. Composed in the autumn of 1910, the preludes share stylistic traits with his magnificent Third Piano Concerto, completed just shortly beforehand.

The ever-curious Yeol Eum Son also presents a fascinating set of works by legendary pianists who were also composers. Among them are the stylish Minuet by Polish pianist Ignaz Paderewski, Alicia de Larrocha’s Sonata Antigua – imbued with the spirit of early Italian Baroque – and excerpts from Friedrich Gulda’s Play Piano Play, a playful cycle written for his wife.

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The South Korean pianist in music by Rachmaninov and other legendary pianist-composers.

Sunday 23 November 2025 15.00

Ends approximately 17.00

Price:

260-450 SEK

The truly outstanding pianists possess a rare ability to convey the very soul of the music – through touch, phrasing, dynamics and energy. A kind of magic. South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son is among this select group. Her playing is marked by a rare poetic elegance, combined with power and a bold sense of drama.

In this recital, she performs Rachmaninov’s often dazzlingly virtuosic Preludes, Op. 32 – inspired by Frédéric Chopin’s celebrated preludes, where each piece seems to unfold from a single musical idea. Composed in the autumn of 1910, the preludes share stylistic traits with his magnificent Third Piano Concerto, completed just shortly beforehand.

The ever-curious Yeol Eum Son also presents a fascinating set of works by legendary pianists who were also composers. Among them are the stylish Minuet by Polish pianist Ignaz Paderewski, Alicia de Larrocha’s Sonata Antigua – imbued with the spirit of early Italian Baroque – and excerpts from Friedrich Gulda’s Play Piano Play, a playful cycle written for his wife.

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Book before the tickets are released!

This concert is included in our series Piano Solo. You can secure your place by purchasing a subscription right now – with 25 percent off the ticket price.

Read more about Piano Solo

  • The music

    Approximate times
  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski Menuet, Sarabande and Caprice from Book I - à l’Antique för piano - Six humoresques de concert for piano op 14
    11 min
  • Alicia de Larrocha Sonata antigua for piano
    3 min
  • Wanda Landowska Feu follet for piano
    4 min
  • Wanda Landowska Waltz for piano
    3 min
  • Tatyana Nikolayeva Elegy for piano op 19:8
    3 min
  • Alexis Weissenberg Étude for piano (1943)
    3 min
  • Friedrich Gulda Movement 7 Lento, molto tranquillo e piano and Movement 10 Allegro pesante from Play Piano Play for piano
    7 min
  • Frank Churchill Reminiscences of Snow White for piano arr Earl Wild
    8 min
  • Intermission
    25 min
  • Serge Rachmaninoff 13 Preludes for piano op 32
    42 min
  • Participants

  • Yeol Eum Son piano

Sunday 23 November 2025 15.00

Ends approximately 17.00

Price:

260-450 SEK


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