Sayuwon’s first music festival opens with moonlight performance of Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’

DAEGU — On a Friday evening in September, the Korean National Symphony Orchestra traded the concert hall for a mountaintop in Gunwi County, Daegu. Led by Adrien Perruchon, music director of the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestra opened Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pastoral,” as a half-moon hung to the audience’s left. When the music softened, the sound of insects and rustling leaves drifted in from the surrounding hills. Yet the orchestra itself sounded clear and focused, rare for