Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra – review

Usher Hall, EdinburghUnsuk Chin has been the Seoul Philharmonic's composer-in-residence for five years now, and seems to be their secret weapon. The orchestra opened their first visit to Edinburgh with Messiaen's Les Offrandes Oubliées and ended with Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony and a couple of hefty Russian encores. But it was Chin's briefer, punchier and deeply original soundworld that showed them off best.Šu is a concerto for sheng, a 3,000-year-old Chinese mouth organ that looks like a min...

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