Utwory na płycie:

• Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra - I.
• Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra - Cadenzas
• Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra - II.
• Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra - III.
• Interludium A
• Glissées for Solo Cello - I.
• Glissées for Solo Cello - II.
• Glissées for Solo Cello - III.
• Glissées for Solo Cello - IV.
• Fanfare & Memorial
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 - I.
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 - II.
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 - III.
• Kontraste. Two Pieces for Violin solo - I.
• Kontraste. Two Pieces for Violin solo - II.
• Gasa, for Violin and Piano

CD 1:
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra
Interludium A
Glissées for Solo Cello
10 Fanfare & Memorial

CD 2:
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1
Kontraste. Two Pieces for Solo Violin
Gasa for Violin and Piano

A CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION OF ISANG YUN’S LIFE AND MUSIC

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 ISANG 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 program 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 komun’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 honor of Yun. The double album also includes the orchestral Fanfare & 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.

On this album, Matt Haimovitz plays on a Giovanni Grancino cello from Milan (c. 1695–1700) graciously provided to him by the company CANIMEX INC., from Drummondville, Quebec, Canada.

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Recording: June 7–12, 2017, Brucknerhaus, Linz, Austria [Live] (CD 1: 1-5; CD 2: 1-6); August 27, 2017, Tippet Rise Arts Center, Fishtail, Montana (CD 1: 6-9); June 30, 2017, Musiktheater am Volksgarten, Großer Orchestersaal, Linz, Austria (CD 1: 10)