-Review on the recital at Rudolf Firkušný Festival in Prague (03.11.24)
by Martina Marie Heroldivá
"Her recital as a whole was truly exceptional, especially in its sense of detail."
"The Korean pianist offered the audience a varied program in which she demonstrated her undeniable playing qualities and deep feeling for interpretation. During the subsequent discussion, she won the hearts of the Prague audience with her modest and humble performance with an almost endearing shyness."
"The light reflected from the water surface and its ripples is depicted here by a flood of arpeggios, tremolos and glissandos, which the pianist played with such ease that it seemed as if she were only lightly rippled the water surface with her hands instead of the keyboard. The tiny staccatos then evoke water droplets and the pianist played them in a way that the notes were dripping from her fingers."
"The listener needs to be reminded from time to time that even brilliant musicians are actually people. Chloe Mun did so with her charming shyness and modesty, and she gained even more sympathy."
www.klasikaplus.cz/klaviristka-chloe-mun-ukazala-vyjimecny-cit-pro-zvuk-a-ukazala-i-lidskou-tvar/
by Martina Marie Heroldivá
"Her recital as a whole was truly exceptional, especially in its sense of detail."
"The Korean pianist offered the audience a varied program in which she demonstrated her undeniable playing qualities and deep feeling for interpretation. During the subsequent discussion, she won the hearts of the Prague audience with her modest and humble performance with an almost endearing shyness."
"The light reflected from the water surface and its ripples is depicted here by a flood of arpeggios, tremolos and glissandos, which the pianist played with such ease that it seemed as if she were only lightly rippled the water surface with her hands instead of the keyboard. The tiny staccatos then evoke water droplets and the pianist played them in a way that the notes were dripping from her fingers."
"The listener needs to be reminded from time to time that even brilliant musicians are actually people. Chloe Mun did so with her charming shyness and modesty, and she gained even more sympathy."
www.klasikaplus.cz/klaviristka-chloe-mun-ukazala-vyjimecny-cit-pro-zvuk-a-ukazala-i-lidskou-tvar/
-The sublime perfection of Chloe Jiyeong Mun in Warsaw by Christopher Axworthy
christopheraxworthymusiccommentary.com/2021/08/31/the-sublime-perfection-of-chloe-jiyeong-mun-in-warsaw/
christopheraxworthymusiccommentary.com/2021/08/31/the-sublime-perfection-of-chloe-jiyeong-mun-in-warsaw/
-From Duszniki Chopin Festival in 2022 by Szymon Atys
'My fondest festival memory remains the recital of Chloe Jiyeong Mun, who gave a dazzling interpretation of Schumann (Kinderszenen and Davidsbündlertänze). Her introverted playing was accompanied by long moments of silence and concentration. It was a feast for those who are tired of galloping and commotion, and are enchanted by modesty and simplicity, poetry of sound, elementary mathematics of phrasing. After all, that is why we go back in time. Schumann's fairy-tale music always benefits from such interpretations. In the case of a pianist who can hold the listener's attention even at the slowest tempos, it can be called a revelation. Let's not miss Mun and her interest in Ariel's piano pieces, including the intriguing Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49, which was discussed between a cup of coffee and a glass of Chopin's Pieniawa.'
ww.ruchmuzyczny.pl/article/2457
'...Chloé Mun, au jeu extrêmement délicat, jamais mièvre mais toujours d'à-propos, dont le Steinway sonne ce soir un peu comme un piano-forte.'
(Chloé Mun, with her extremely delicate playing, never mawkish but always on point, whose Steinway sounds a bit like a piano-forte this evening.)
-Patrick Jézéquel
www.resmusica.com/2024/07/16/ferveur-et-intimite-a-la-33e-edition-des-rencontres-musicales-de-noyers/