[ Ссылка ] - R. Christine Lee conducts the Bob Jones University Symphony Orchestra.

2. Romanze (larghetto) - 0:02
3. Rondo (vivace) - 9:42

Program Notes:
Chopin wrote his only two piano concertos before his twentieth birthday as vehicles to impress the new audiences he hoped to gain abroad. The Concerto in E minor was premiered in Warsaw 11 October 1832 as part of a farewell program before Chopin left Poland in what would become a permanent leave. The concert was a success.

One of the main points of discussion and debate concerning the concertos is their instrumentation or lack thereof. Some critics consider the treatment a detracting weakness, while more recent ones suggest that the sparse orchestration was in keeping with that particular time period when a concerto could be performed with just a string quartet or quintet or with no accompaniment at all. In fact, Chopin did occasionally perform them in this manner himself.

After the premiere of the E Minor Concerto in Paris in 1832, his friend Hiller wrote, "Chopin was the hero. . . Mendelssohn applauded furiously. After this nothing more was heard of Chopin's lack of technique." Another critic urged Chopin to play not just for the small salons but for larger audiences as well: "And when it shall be asked who is the first pianist of Europe, Liszt or Thalberg, let all the world answer, as do those who have heard you—'It's Chopin.'" Although Chopin feared such large public performances, these concertos and his piano works in general attest to his talent and technical skill.

Chopin wrote concerning the second movement that it should call up "beautiful memories in the soul, for instance on a fine moonlit night." It quite definitively illustrates why its composer has often received the title of "poet of the piano."

The concerto concludes with a rousing rondo. Its third theme derives from a Polish national dance, the krakowiak, which surely reminded Chopin of his homeland each time he performed it and wherever he was, just as did the silver goblet of Polish earth which was given to him at the premiere of the work.

BORA RYU, CONCERTO/ARIA COMPETITION WINNER

Bora Ryu grew up in South Korea and started piano age eight. She attended Peniel Middle School of the Arts and Peniel High School of the Arts in Busan, South Korea and continued her piano studies there. She holds a bachelor's degree in Musicology from Seoul National University in South Korea. In 2008, she came to Bob Jones University to begin the master's degree in Music Education and Bora is now working on her second master's degree in Church Music with a piano principal. She has studied piano at BJU with Mr. Ed Rea and Mr. David Lehman. She is currently the choir director at the Korean Free Presbyterian church in Greenville, South Carolina. Her parents and younger brother live in South Korea

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