Isang Yun (1917-95) held fast to his dream of a united Korea even after being unjustly accused of espionage for North Korea and sentenced to imprisonment and death. Sunrise Falling, a centennial commemoration of Yun's life and music from the PENTATONE Oxingale Series, channels that history of oppression into music of raw emotional power. Longtime Yun collaborator and advocate Dennis Russell Davies curates the programme and conducts the Bruckner Orchester Linz. A cellist himself, Yun placed the highly autobiographical Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (1975/76) at the heart of his output, and cellist Matt Haimovitz tackles its controlled chaos in a live performance, bursting with passion, despair, and inventive timbres such as a plectrum used to emulate the Korean zither. The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 (1981) features violinist Yumi Hwang-Williams, who returned to Korea in 2015 to perform the work at a festival honouring Yun. The double album is rounded out by the orchestral Fanfare and Memorial and further solo works performed by pianist Maki Namekawa, Hwang-Williams, and Haimovitz — a powerful reminder, a century after Yun's birth, of music that still opens a gate to a lost, united homeland.