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Sunrise Falling


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.
 
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Disc 1
 
  Composer: Yun, Isang
  Cello Concerto 30:29
01 Cello Concerto: I. — 09:45 $ 2.05 USD
02 Cello Concerto: Cadenzas 08:07 $ 1.70 USD
03 Cello Concerto: II. — 08:08 $ 1.71 USD
04 Cello Concerto: III. — 04:29 $ 0.94 USD
 
 
  Composer: Yun, Isang
05 Interludium A 11:28 $ 2.41 USD
 
 
  Composer: Yun, Isang
  Glissées 16:05
06 Glissées: No. 1, — 03:56 $ 0.83 USD
07 Glissées: No. 2, — 04:07 $ 0.86 USD
08 Glissées: No. 3, — 03:30 $ 0.74 USD
09 Glissées: No. 4, — 04:32 $ 0.95 USD
 
 
  Composer: Yun, Isang
  Fanfare and Memorial
10 Fanfare & Memorial 16:33 $ 3.48 USD
 
 
Disc 2
 
  Composer: Yun, Isang
  Violin Concerto No. 1 40:15
01 Violin Concerto No. 1: I. — (Live) 13:59 $ 2.94 USD
02 Violin Concerto No. 1: II. — (Live) 12:36 $ 2.65 USD
03 Violin Concerto No. 1: III. — (Live) 13:40 $ 2.87 USD
 
 
  Composer: Yun, Isang
  Kontraste 17:53
04 Kontraste: No. 1, — (Live) 10:17 $ 2.16 USD
05 Kontraste: No. 2, — (Live) 07:36 $ 1.60 USD
 
 
  Composer: Yun, Isang
  Gasa
06 Gasa (Live) 14:38 $ 3.07 USD
 
  Album total 147:21
ComposerYun, Isang
CelloHaimovitz, Matt
OrchestraBruckner Orchester Linz
ConductorDavies, Dennis Russell
PianoDavies, Dennis Russell
Namekawa, Maki
HarpBielefeld, Christoph
ViolinHwang-Williams, Yumi

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