I first featured Song HyungJung back in 2011. She was then thirteen. Last November I shared Blues for D.D. from a recent video upload, and here she is in the same recital with a bit of Piazzolla.
Piazzolla Etude for Flute
And YES … listen to recordings. Understand the context. This goes with any work! I remember sitting on an audition panel for an opera audition: it was clear a few people had never listened to the excerpt played in context. It was accurate, but not at all what is done with the singer(s) and an orchestra.
Le Tombeau de Couperin: Prelude
Eugene Izotov, Oboe
Doesn’t he make it sound easy?
It’s not. At least not for me. But then I play the English horn part on this. Whew!
