Violinist Rusev, recital at Seoul Arts Center on the 11th
Only one person on stage, two stages in one day.
Violinist Svetlin Rusev will perform a ‘string double header’. ‘Svetlin Rusev Violin Recital I-Isai·II-Paganini’ will be held at the IBK Chamber Hall of Seoul Arts Center on the 11th.
Recital I, which begins at 2 p.m., will feature the complete six unaccompanied sonatas by Eugène Izay, a Belgian violin master and composer from the early 20th century, and Recital II, at 8 p.m., will feature the mysterious virtuosity of Eugène Izay, who was called the ‘Devil’s Violinist’ a century earlier. We will perform all 24 Caprices by Niccolo Paganini.
For Rusev, who is from Bulgaria, Korea is like his third home after France. He served as concertmaster of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Myung-Whun Chung, and through that connection, he also served as concertmaster of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra until 2015. He has served as concertmaster of the Pyeongchang Festival Orchestra at the Pyeongchang Daegwallyeong Music Festival since 2018, and has also served as concertmaster of the ‘Going Home Project’, an orchestra led by its members, from 2022.
He is also familiar as a companion of pianist Son Yeol-eum. In 2015, the ‘Svetlin Rusev and Son Yeol-eum’ recital was held twice at the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall, and a duo recital was also held at the Seoul Arts Center IBK Chamber Hall in 2019 and the Lotte Concert Hall in March of last year. The album ‘Love Music’, released last year on the ‘Naive’ label containing the two’s performances, was praised by music magazine Gramophone, saying, “The sounds these performers produce are intensely captivating. It received praise, saying, “It gives the greatest happiness.”
The six unaccompanied violin sonatas performed by Isai in this ‘Recital I’ are pieces that Isai dedicated to representative contemporary violinists such as Josef Szigeti, Jacques Thibaut, and Fritz Kreisler. Izai said, “Before technique, a violinist must be a thinker and a poet. “In order to express your emotions through playing, you have to experience all the emotions yourself,” he ordered.
Paganini’s 24 Caprices performed in ‘Recital II’ are called ‘the standard of technical requirements’ for all violinists since the 19th century and are loved in concert halls and competitions around the world. Rusev performed five pieces from Izai Sonata No. 2 and No. 3 and Paganini Caprice at the Kumho Art Hall Yonsei in August 2021.
Rusev made his name known in the world music world when he won the first competition at the Sendai International Competition in Japan in 2001. He served as resident musician and artistic director of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in his home country, Bulgaria, and also served as a professor at his alma mater, the Paris Conservatoire, and at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Yoo Yun-jong, cultural reporter [email protected]
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