Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies – Isang Yun : Sunrise Falling (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies – Isang Yun : Sunrise Falling (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:27:56 minutes | 2,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Uncompromising in his life as he was in his music, Korean composer Isang Yun (1917–95) held fast to his dream of a united Korea, even as he was unjustly accused of espionage for North Korea and sentenced to imprisonment and death. From a life of unimaginable oppression and torture emerges music of raw emotional power, heard on Iang Yun – Sunrise Falling, a centennial commemoration of Yun’s life and music from the Pentatone Oxingale Series. Maestro Dennis Russell Davies, a longtime collaborator and advocate for Yun, curates the programme and conducts the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. A cellist himself, Yun’s fascinating, highly autobiographical Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (1975/76) anchors the album. In a live performance, cellist Matt Haimovitz tackles the controlled chaos of Yun’s score, bursting with passion, despair, and new timbral textures, such as the use of a plectrum to emulate the Korean zither, the kŏmun’go. Yun’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra no.1 (1981) features violinist Yumi Hwang-Williams, who reflects upon her own emotional return to Korea in 2015, where she performed the work at a festival in honour of Yun. The double album also includes the orchestral Fanfare and Memorial, and additional illuminating solo works by Yun performed by pianist Maki Namekawa, Hwang-Williams, and Haimovitz. 100 years after Isang Yun’s birth, the two Koreas still teeter on a razor’s edge, with ever more global ramifications. His music opens the gate to a lost, united land, with Yun’s own heart bleeding but ever hopeful.

Tracklist:

1-01. Matt Haimovitz – Cello Concerto – I. — (09:45)
1-02. Matt Haimovitz – Cello Concerto – Cadenzas (08:07)
1-03. Matt Haimovitz – Cello Concerto – II. — (08:08)
1-04. Matt Haimovitz – Cello Concerto – III. — (04:36)
1-05. Maki Namekawa – Interludium A (11:33)
1-06. Matt Haimovitz – Glissees – No. 1, — (03:56)
1-07. Matt Haimovitz – Glissees – No. 2, — (04:07)
1-08. Matt Haimovitz – Glissees – No. 3, — (03:30)
1-09. Matt Haimovitz – Glissees – No. 4, — (04:38)
1-10. Christoph Bielefeld – Fanfare & Memorial (16:33)
2-11. Yumi Hwang-Williams – Violin Concerto No. 1 – I. — (Live) (13:59)
2-12. Yumi Hwang-Williams – Violin Concerto No. 1 – II. — (Live) (12:36)
2-13. Yumi Hwang-Williams – Violin Concerto No. 1 – III. — (Live) (13:44)
2-14. Yumi Hwang-Williams – Kontraste – No. 1, — (Live) (10:17)
2-15. Yumi Hwang-Williams – Kontraste – No. 2, — (Live) (07:43)
2-16. Yumi Hwang-Williams – Gasa (Live) (14:38)

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