"Chin's "Piano Concerto" opens with sparkling showers of piano, flute and high strings, developing a gently implacable tread of piano as orchestral colours grow more intense . . . it's the "Su for Sheng and Orchestra" that stands out: a bamboo mouth-organ capable, under virtuoso Wu Wei, of sounds evanescent and emotive, the sheng resembles organ, synthesizer and accordion in a flowing dialogue with strings and percussion, dictating the orchestral response." --Independent, 09. August 2014
“The music is nothing if not hyperactive, brilliantly orchestrated and atmospheric too. Try it; you may be pleasantly surprised.” The Times, 23. August 2014 ***
“The music is nothing if not hyperactive, brilliantly orchestrated and atmospheric too. Try it; you may be pleasantly surprised.” The Times, 23. August 2014 ***
"The Cello Concerto . . . is the biggest and most ambitious of the three, and arguably the most important concerto for that instrument to appear since Lutoslawski's in 1970. The solo writing pushes the cellist -- the superb Alban Gerhardt -- to the limits of the possible . . . [Piano Concerto]: as the soloist Sunwook Kim shows, the total effect is undeniably brilliant and effective . . . ["Su" for sheng and orchestra]: [it's Wu Wei's] extraordinary virtuosity that allows [Unsuk Chin] to create such original textures, with the sheng adding a reedy edge to the slowly shifting chords, or a shimmering haze to the more swiftly moving passages. The effects are beautifully judged and, as in all the works here, meticulously realised by the Seoul Philharmonic under Myung-Whun Chung." --The Guardian, 13. August 2014
