Korean Sounds - East Meets West: Space

As part of the cultural season Korea/UK 2017-18, the programme Korean Sounds: East Meets West returns for a series of concerts that present a rare opportunity for audiences to hear both traditional Korean and western classical music in one place.

East Meets West, a concert series presented by the Korean Cultural Centre UK at Kings Place, has been curated around five themes, each designed to give audiences the chance to listen to both European and Korean music of either similar sentiment, character and purpose, or music from a similar historical period. The programme will present traditional Korean music (gugak) alongside western pieces and in so doing will explore what is common in both musical worlds as well as revealing how they differ.

In the third concert, we listen to Yeongsanhoesang and more of Franz Liszt. Originally Yeongsanhoesang was Buddhist vocal music and transmitted with court dance. However, Buddhist influences of the music disappeared during the Confucian Joseon dynasty, and it became the most representative of Confucian scholars’ music. Cellist Sung-Won Yang and pianist Enrico Pace then take us to the European intellectual’s world of the 19th century.

Programme
Hyeonak Yeongsanhoesang
- Sangnyeongsan
- Jungnyeongsan
- Seryeongsan
- Garakdeori
- Sanghyeondodeuri
- Hahyeondodeuri
- Yeombuldeuri
- Taryeong
- Gunak

Liszt
- 2 Elegies, S130 & S131
- Romance oubliée, S132
- La lugubre gondola, S134
- Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S382
- Pensees poetiques/ Consolations Nos 1-6, S172
- Ave Maria, S173 No. 2
- Cantique d’amour, S173
Chopin Polonaise brillante in C for cello and piano, Op. 3