Pianist Yeol Eum Son's New Album, "Love Music"

Released on Naïve Records, the new album features works by Waxman, Korngold, Kreisler, Strauss, and Wagner performed alongside violinist Svetlin Roussev

German-based South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son has released her second album, Love Music following her debut album Mozart’s Complete Piano Sonatas.

Released on Naïve Records, the new album features works by Waxman, Korngold, Kreisler, Strauss, and Wagner performed alongside violinist Svetlin Roussev, a professor at Haute École de Musique in Geneva.

The album presents Waxman’s Tristan and Isolde: Love Music, Korngold’s Mariettas liedzur laute aus der oper Die Tote Stadt and 4 pieces from Much Ado about Nothing, Kreisler’s Alt-wiener Tanzweisen, Strauss’ Violin Sonata Op. 18, and Wagner’s Wesendonck-lieder No. 5.

Waxman's Love Music for violin and piano is based on themes from Wagner's opera, Tristan and Isolde, particularly the love duet in Act II. Completed in 1947, the music was used for the soundtrack of the Warner Bros. motion picture Humoresque (with John Garfield as a struggling violinist, Oscar Levant as his friend and pianist, and Joan Crawford as Garfield’s ill-fated lover). Yeol Eum's new album takes after this work's title, Love Music.

Listen to 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano from Much Ado About Nothing below

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Represented worldwide by IMG Artists, Yeol Eum's 2023/24 season features Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.3 with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Australia and duo recitals with violinist Svetlin Roussev in South Korea featuring works from their new album of late-Romantic pieces for violin and piano. Violinist Svetlin Roussev is a regular guest soloist with various orchestras worldwide and continues collaborating through his chamber music performances.