THE two Korean sisters delighted the audience on Friday night when they made their recital debut at the 28th Young Musicians Recital organised by the Classical Music Society.

There was a lovely duet by Mozart, and the girls each played several solos.

Chaelin opened the programme with Bach's Concerto in the Italian Style, which she played with a maturity belying her 14 years, and I particularly enjoyed John Field's restful Nocturne, which she played without music.

In Haydn's Sonata in E minor Chaelin made a couple of minor errors, but she did not allow these to break the flow, or the enjoyment, and as her fingers scampered over the keys in Debussy's Jardins sous la pluie you could almost hear the rain!

Yealin impressed with three Chopin pieces, then gave an outstanding performance of Poulenc's Nocture number 1 in C which is extremely complicated, the pianist managing to create what was so aptly described in the programme notes as a "musical collage". The beautiful Un Sospiro cannot be easy to play, but Yealin illustrated the emotion Liszt put into his composition.

To my delight the girls ended their programme with Moszkowsky's Spanish Dances, which my sister and I used to play many years ago. I shouldn't really mention the one or two wrong notes, as they gave a superb performance of dance number five, the Bolero, con spirito, in which I never mastered the tempo!

Yealin wants a career in medicine, but surely Chaelin is a name to watch in the piano world in the future. VJS