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“Music is anything but intellectual”An interview with Kun Woo Paik - The Classical Source

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Kun Woo Paik in person is very much like his playing – thoughtful, reflective and considered. Such wisdom is apparent on his latest CD, a beautifully recorded, sensitively played collection of piano pieces by Fauré recorded in July last year at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea. Kun Woo Paik has come a long way since … “Music is anything but intellectual” An interview with Kun Woo Paik Read More »

Kun Woo Paik in person is very much like his playing – thoughtful, reflective and considered. Such wisdom is apparent on his latest CD, a beautifully recorded, sensitively played collection of piano pieces by Fauré recorded in July last year at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea. Kun Woo Paik has come a long way since his early days in Seoul, North Korea. He was born in 1946 and made his debut at the age of ten playing Grieg’s concerto. He now lives in Paris, which is where we meet, and has done so for the last twenty years. It was a recital in New York of the complete piano music of Ravel in…

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