Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata Op. 31 No. 2 “Tempest”
Sonata Op. 53 “Waldstein”
Sonata Op. 57 „Appassionata“
Recorded in Teldex Studio Berlin, October 2020
Producer, Martin Sauer
Piano Technician, Thomas Hübsch
Recording Piano, Bösendorfer VC280
Universal Music, 2021 Release
Claude Debussy Douze Études pour le piano:
Étude pour les cinq doigts d’après Monsieur Czerny
Étude pour les tierces
Étude pour les quartes
Étude pour les sixtes
Étude pour les octaves
Étude pour les huit doigts
Étude pour les degrés chromatiques
Étude pour les agréments
Étude pour les notes répétées
Étude pour les sonorités opposées
Étude pour les arpèges composés
Étude pour les accords
Recorded in Teldex Studio Berlin, April 2016
Producer, Martin Sauer
Piano Technician, Thomas Hübsch
Recording Piano, Bösendorfer VC280
Universal Digital, 2020 Release
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata Op. 31 No. 3
Sonata Op. 81a “Les Adieu”
Sonata Op. 90
Sonata Op. 109
Recorded in Teldex Studio Berlin, November 2015
Producer, Martin Sauer
Piano Technician, Thomas Hübsch
Recording Piano, Bösendorfer VC280
Decca Korea, 2018 Release
Frederic Chopin:
12 Etudes Op. 10
12 Etudes Op. 25
Recorded in Ebert-Halle Harburg, July 2001
Producer, Cord Garben
Editing, Wolf-Dieter Karwatky
Recording Piano, Steinway & Sons
Aulos Korea, 2005 Release
Franz Liszt:
6 Grandes Études de Paganini
Recorded in Südwest Rundfunk, 1987
Parke & Davis, 1988 Release
Live from Concerts
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata Op. 101
Sonata Op. 2 No. 3
Sonata Op. 31 No. 2
Sonata Op. 26
Sonata Op. 27 No. 2
Diabelli Variations Op. 120
Bagatelle Op. 126
Concerto No. 3, 1st mvt (Ulsan Philharmonic)
Concerto No. 4, 2nd mvt (Camerata Antiqua)
Felix Mendelssohn
Lieder ohne Worte
Unsuk Chin
Etude No. 6
Uzong Choe
Prelude No. 15
Music & Interviews
@Musical Mondays “Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament”
@Tomato Classic tv
@Boesendorfer Korea
@KBS FM Salon de Piano Series
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos. 18, 26, 27, 30
“… Choi is more than just at home with the linguistic ductus of this music. She understands this music, reconstruct it and by doing so she can form lots of details to a big entirety. – the biggest challenge for Sonatas. She can subtly untangle Beethoven’s linear work, the deliberate confusion in elaboration of theme for the listener, fill them with life, let them become comprehensible. At the same time her way of playing is connected with magnificent sense of sound, never exaggerate the tempos, (marvelous pacing in Op. 90, the 2nd mvt.!) the dynamic, even the hard accents and eruptions sound mellifluous, without losing their meanings. In op. 81a she traces the pain of statement so convincingly that one could understand the emotions which is transformed in this music. And also, the Op. 109 which is hardly leading to comprehensible flow, she succeeds excellent! What a shame that this CD is released only at Decca Korea.”
Carsten Dürrer
[PIANO NEWS] Vol.03/2019
Get to you the “Viennese Feeling”, Beethoven Sonatas
New Album of Pianist HieYon Choi
Performed on ‘Bösendorfer’ born in 1828…Deep and Elegant Sound Contrast to Brilliant Tone Color of ‘Steinway’
“A Beethoven recording which you’d want to keep next to you for long time; an album of Beethoven Sonata No. 18, 26, 27, 30, performed by HieYon Choi (Professor Seoul National University), released by Decca label. A selection of calm and intimate character. A flowing and elegant connections, architecture of an intelligence and without any vanity; it feels like an intimate talk with a thoughtful friend. The abundant acoustic which makes one feel listening to it in a proper-sized living room adds to a perfection of this recording….”
Yoon-Jong Yoo
[DONG-A DAILY] Jan-18-2019