Sicklist: Kyung Wha Chung cries off on eve of major release
mainThe Korean violinist has cancelled next month’s UK appearances after suffering a swollen finger.
Her comeback recording of the Bach Sonatas and Partitas on the Warner label will have to launch without her.
Does that mean she’s made the recording but won’t be available to promote it? Or she can’t make the recording now?
Postponed until May. Blimey, she was going to play all six in one evening !
https://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=19922
Does a finger take more than a month to heal from swelling? Sounds like something else is swelling up quite a bit.
Depends on what’s causing the swelling, and what can be done to treat it. Remember she was sidelined with a finger ailment for several years (and then there’s the well-documented case of Murray Perahia’s thumb). Sometimes things take longer to heal than one would expect.
What is the “something else” that you think is swelling?
Sound and film not properly aligned but this is one of the best performances I’ve ever encountered of anything by Webern :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3tyHvD0SLRg