Kyung-Wha Chung: The Complete Warner Recordings (12 CD)

Kyung-Wha Chung, an artist of passionate intensity and probing intellect, is one of the great violinists of the last 50 years. This 11-CD collection, which unites recordings made between 1978 and 2000, showcases the different facets of her art as a concerto soloist and as a chamber musician. Also included in the box is a DVD of the Beethoven Violin Concerto, recorded in Amsterdam with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Tennstedt. Born into a musical family in South Korea, Kyung-Wha Chung left for America at age twelve to study with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School and received further coaching from both Joseph Szigeti and Szymon Goldberg. After winning the Leventritt competition in 1967, she embarked upon her North American career, followed shortly after by her sensational European debut in 1970 playing the Tchaikovsky Concerto at the Royal Festival Hall. Now a professor at the Julliard School, she remains a most sought after concert soloist and chamber recitalist to this day.