ヴァイオリン・オン・ステージ

韓国のスーパースター・ヴァイオリニストのソロ・デビュー・アルバム

韓国生まれ、31歳のヴァイオリニスト、キム・ボムソリは自国のスーパースター。『Violin on Stage』はオペラやバレエからの極上の名曲を収録したソロ・デビュー・アルバムです。ミハウ・ロトが新たに編曲した3曲のユニークなレパートリーも注目です。
録音は昨年12月、ヴロツワフの国立音楽フォーラムで、NFMヴロツワフ・フィルハーモニー管弦楽団と音楽監督のジャンカルロ・ゲレーロとともに行われました。アルバムからはボムソリがポーランド、そしてその音楽、音楽家たちと密接な結びつきを感じていることがよくわかります。
ボムソリはARDミュンヘン、エリザベート、シベリウス、チャイコフスキー、ヴィエニャフスキなど数々の国際コンクールで受賞。そして2018年に韓国文化スポーツ観光省が開催した若手芸術家賞、2019年に韓国音楽協会主催の若手芸術家賞を受賞しています。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

Of the many young violinists contending for space in the marketplace, Bomsori Kim is among the most talented, and here, she lives up to the marketing device of presenting her with the single name Bomsori. The idea of the Violin on Stage title is to offer pieces connected to opera and ballet, and Bomsori buttresses it by referring to her earlier desire to become a singer. It certainly would have made sense a century ago, and it makes sense now for the kind of violinist Bomsori is, with an ability to project soaring melodic lines and an extraordinary rich tone in the lower register of the violin. She has some operatic corkers here, not least the Carmen Fantasie of Franz Waxman, from the film Humoresque, perhaps the high point of Hollywood composition. However, it is not so much the concept that wins listeners over here as the sheer beauty of Bomsoris playing. She focuses to an unusual degree on Wieniawski, who fits her style perfectly. Sarasate, who wrote a lot of operatic fantasies, has a sentimental tinge that does not fit her so well and is ignored. The Wieniawski Fantasia on Themes from Gounods Faust, Op. 20, is here and furnishes a showstopper finale, but the other Wieniawski pieces arent connected to opera or ballet and dont fit Bomsoris theme. They are, though, superb, often lying in the realm of gutsy G string playing and low double-stopping that makes this violinists sound so distinctive. She is also excellent in the extended lines of the Meditation from Thais. Bomsori gets excellent support from the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic, which knows this music well, and from conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, with whom she has worked effectively in the past. A Warsaw audience of Wieniawskis time would have recognized in Bomsori exactly what she is: a major star in the making.