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Violinist Bomsori Kim
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Bomsori Kim

Bomsori Kim began taking piano lessons when she was five years old, but after seeing a violin concert, little Bomsori demanded an end to her piano lessons and a start on the violin. Thirty years later, she's a star. On today's show, we'll hear violinist Bomsori Kim play at a concert in Germany.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata, L 140: Mvt 3
Bomsori Kim, violin | Rafal Blechacz, piano
Album: Faure, Debussy, Szymanowski, Chopin
DG 4836467

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Flute Concerto in A minor, Wq. 166, H.431
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute | Owen Dalby, violin | Livia Sohn, violin | Lesley Robertson, viola | Christopher Costanza, cello | Anthony Manzo, double bass | Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord
Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series, Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, SC

Kevin Lau: String Quartet No. 5, "The Train to Improbable Places"
Viano Quartet
Hayden's Ferry Chamber Music Series, Tempe Center For The Arts, Tempe, AZ

Georges Bizet, arr. Franz Waxman: Carmen Fantasy
Bomsori Kim, violin | NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Stanislov Kochanovsky, conductor
EBU, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Holstenhall, Neumunster, Germany

Hour 2

Louise Farrenc: Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano: Mvt 3
Francois Salque, cello | Brigitte Engerer, piano | Romain Guyot, clarinet
Album: Farrenc: Musique de chambre
Naive 5033

Sergei Prokofiev: Overture from "War and Peace", Op. 91
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Joana Mallwitz, conductor
EBU, Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany

Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 30
John Novacek, piano | Andrew Wan, violin | Toby Appel, viola | Bion Tsang, cello | Susan Cahill, bass
Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Packard Hall, Colorado Springs, CO

Jessie Montgomery: Divided, for cello and orchestra
Tommy Mesa, cello | Greenwich Symphony Orchestra | Stuart Malina, conductor
Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, Greenwich High School Performing Arts Center, Greenwich, CT

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