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Rendezvous - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More

By Jo-Yu Chen
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 / Piano Sonata Moonlight; Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker: Dance of the Reed Flutes; Beethoven – Sonata No. 8, Pathétique 2nd Movement; Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake; Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights; Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle; Prokofiev – Piano Concerto #2; Ravel – Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte.
Jo-Yu Chen: Rendezvous - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More

by Frank Housh
New York-based pianist and composer Jo-Yu Chen treats the great composers like most jazz musicians treat the Great American Songbook: a familiar musical foundation upon which to build a musical style. Chen trained at Juilliard but was seduced by jazz's siren song. Her first four albums: Obsession (Sony Music, 2011), Incomplete Soul (Sony Music, ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Rendezvous: Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More

by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Jo-Yu Chen's artistic mission can be described in her words: When the music is right, it brings us back to the true essence of music, beyond labels and boundaries." But a discussion of labels and boundaries is necessary when addressing her album Rendezvous: Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More. First, some ...