stageandcinema.com – CD Review: ISANG YUN: Sunrise Falling
March 23, 2019 SUNRISE ISN’T THE ONLY THING THAT’S FALLING;IT SOUNDS LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD This is my first time hearing the music of Isang Yun, the South […]
March 23, 2019 SUNRISE ISN’T THE ONLY THING THAT’S FALLING;IT SOUNDS LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD This is my first time hearing the music of Isang Yun, the South […]
February 27, 2019 2018 marks the 100th birth anniversary of Korea’s best known composer, Isang Yun (1918-1995). His work has received many performances and recordings but he is not exactly […]
February 19, 2019 “Haimovitz’ performance of the monologues is utterly convincing, bringing the morose darkness of the composer’s writing to life … Enthusiasts of mid-century avant-garde music will enjoy adding […]
February 7, 2019 Isang YUN (1917-1995)Sunrise FallingCello Concerto (1976) [30:32]Interludium A for solo piano (1982) [11:28]Glissées for solo cello (1970) [16:05]Fanfare and Memorial (1979) for orchestra [16:33}Violin Concerto No 1 (1981) [40:15]Kontraste. Two […]
December 12, 2018 Die beste Musik des Jahres Große Stars, junge Talente und natürlich die aller geheimsten Geheimtipps: Mitarbeiter von ZEIT und ZEIT ONLINE empfehlen Alben und Musikbücher.Von Jens Balzer, Antonia Baum, Martin […]
January 17, 2019 Isang Yun (1917-1995), His High Modernist music was increasingly ubiquitous in the sixties on the New Music scene and then somehow the music seemed to vanish in […]
January 15, 2019 Under the title ‘Sunrise Falling’ PENTATONE recently released a double CD, with an extensive book, with the music of the Korean composer Ysang Yun. Beautiful performances by […]
January 13, 2019 CD ISANG YUN: „SUNRISE FALLING“ mit Matt Haimovitz, dem Bruckner Orchester Linz unter Dennis Russell Davies – PENTATONE Oxingale Series “A fascinating and important approach, especially in […]
December 13, 2018 Music: ★★★★ Sound: ★★★★ The dominance of chamber music in the 20th century is an ideological fiction. It is largely explained by an imbalance in performance practice, which persistently ignores […]
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November 4, 2018 Catching up with Catch of the Day What we played on October 7, October 28, and November 4 Listed below are the tracks we played on October […]
November 2, 2018 Other classical picks this week Sunrise Falling, Pentatone’s two-disc collection of works by Isang Yun, played by the Bruckner Orchestra of Linz conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, provides belated recognition of […]
September 19, 2018 Die Sopranistin Nadine Sierra überzeugt mit ihrer neuen CD: eine virtuose Interpretation und ein politisches Statement zugleich. Auch das Doppelalbum mit Werken von Isang Yun ist mutig, […]
Available now! 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 […]
April 18, 2017 Today’s classical music world is not foreign to composers who fuse their Asian roots with Western avant-garde techniques, from Toshio Hosokawa to Unsuk Chin. But in 1966, […]