Isang Yun: Chamber Music

On this CD:

1. Königliches Thema, for violin solo
Composed by Isang Yun
Performed by Oleg Kagan

2. Quintet for clarinet & strings
Composed by Isang Yun
Performed by Eduard Brunner, Wilanow String Quartet

3. Piri for solo oboe (or clarinet)
Composed by Isang Yun
Performed by Eduard Brunner

4. Duo for cello & harp
Composed by Isang Yun
Performed by Walter Grimmer, Marion Hofmann

5. Recontre for clarinet, harp & cello
Composed by Isang Yun
Performed by Eduard Brunner, Walter Grimmer, Marion Hofmann

Tracks:

Gagok
Contrasts: Contrasts I
Contrasts: Contrasts II
Duo: I
Duo: II
Duo: III
Sori
Novellette

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Incredible.
Wonderful performers

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Incredible........2004-04-23

Dag Jensen is one of my favorite bassoonists, and this recording is one of my reasons for that being so. His tone is the basis for my own sound concept in my own development as a bassoonist.

His performance of the Hindemith sonata is simply beautiful, especially in the march of the second movement (he is the only bassoonists, in the five or so recordings I've heard, to get the style just right). His Yun "Monolog", a work that I have studied and can tell you is no picnic, is mindblowing and the perfection of the intonation is almost unnerving.

Not exactly a cheap album, I know, but well worth it.

Wonderful performers.......2000-05-22

Dag Jensen is one of my favorite bassoonists. He has an amazing technique and fabulous control over his sound and expression. His recordings of the Jolivet Concerto, as well and the Koechlin Sonata and Three Pieces are truly some of the best bassoon recordings I have ever encountered (although neither seem to be listen on Amazon anymore!).

This disc is worth the price for the performances of the Hindemith and the Schoeck alone, and the Yun is piece worth investigating after hearing Jensen's performance. However, I would have preferred to hear another major work in the bassoon repertoire on this CD rather than the Schoof Impromptus. Although Jensen has the jazz idiom down (and even goes up to a high G at the end with no trouble at all!) the music seems a bit inconsequential. Perhaps we can get a recording of some American music from him (the Etler and Previn sonatas especially!).

Intercomunicazione
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Very `idiomatic' and historic performances.

With few exceptions, material that has aged quite poorly

The King of the Avant-Garde Cello

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Very `idiomatic' and historic performances........2005-12-09

Like other reviewer wrote, Siegfried Palm is one of those players who had a central role during the `60s and the `70s in the development of western modern music, in the sense he gave many world premieres and he contributed to create the own works with his knowledge about cello resources and technical possibilities, together with the great talent and capacity for communicate this not easy at all music. Like Mr. Forbes wrote, artists like Palm, Berberian, Tudor, Boulez, Kontarsky, Bruner, Gawriloff, Arditti Qt... were very important in the development of western music, and because of their protagonist figure and central role I think they have certain `idiomatic' style in their way of playing, in their technique and musicality, very close to the modern experimentation come from Darmstadt and the new music centers of central Europe.

I've listen some of these pieces in other performances, specially Nomos Alpha, which I have recorded by Saram (Montaigne) and Strauch (Erato), a very interesting performance the first one by the Arditti Quartet cellist and a little disappointing version the second one played by the Ensemble InterContemporain cellist who is not one of my favourites really. Palm's version in this CD is the best I know and with the plus of having in Palm a convincing player who know deeply the work and have the technical resources to make it so great like he did. Fortunately he recorded this piece some decades ago, because today he is not in so good shape like he was (listening Palm in the Ligeti's Cello Concerto for Teldec is a clear example of a real wise performer but who has lost his early freshness and strong playing). When he played this performance his capacity of playing was in his top moment and listening it on CD makes possible to listen a piece that listened live is impossible to be played full, because of the necessity of put the cello back to the right tone. The col legno, the wild pizzicatti, the glissandi... and all the resources are so clear in this version that it seems impossible one man is playing that piece; sometimes it looks like if two people were playing together to create that amount of sound and techniques. Palm has the best recording of Nomos Alpha that I know, even it is not DDD recording the sound is clear and with a great presence, it's amazing the way DG has remastered it.

Together with Nomos Alpha, my favourite work is Intercomunicazione, for cello and piano, played by Palm and Kontarsky, one of those pianist who developed this instrument to new levels of expression and possibilities. Zimmermann is a composer I really love and I knew this piece and this same version from a CD of the series XXth Classics which is now delete and which offered some of the best Zimmermann's chamber works played by Palm, Gawriloff and the Kontarskys, a must have that DG is missing for all the world; it could be a marvellous DG 20 21. The playing of Palm & Kontarsky is very idiomatic again and very dark, like Zimmermman's works are, much more appropriated than other more technical performances you can listen today. The partnership between both players is incredible and I really think this version is like a chapter of the last decades performed music, an example of understanding.

The other works are very interesting but not so great like these before. Kagel's piece is great and Penderecki offers a Capriccio dedicated to him, like some other works here. Glisées, for cello solo, is for me one of Yun's best pieces and has in Palm his ideal player.

I can say these are some of the best works for cello of the last decades (I have to add Pression by Lachenmann, never played by Palm I think, and which you can listen in a great performance by Walter Grimmer in Col legno). In all these works Palm shows himself like the best player we can imagine and he gives new light in this amazing remastering in DG 20 21. I hope DG releases more CD from the Avantgarde archives they have.

With few exceptions, material that has aged quite poorly .......2004-11-16

INTERCOMUNICAZIONE: Cello Recital is a reissue in DG's "Echo 20/21" line of a 1975 set of avant-garde cello works performed by Siegfrield Palm. The German cellist has long been seen as the master of avant-garde cello and four of the nine pieces represented here were dedicated to him. Piano accompaniment is occasionally given by Aloys Kontarsky Though Palm is clearly a talented musician, I found that the material in this collection is of very uneven quality.

Anton Weben and Bernd Alois Zimmermann are each represented by two pieces. Weben's "Drei kleine Stuecke" for cello and piano is less than three minutes long, but manages to pack in some interesting phrasing. His "Sonata for cello and piano" tries to do a lot but is simply too short to manage. Zimmerman's "Vier kurze Studien" is entertaining but brief and entirely forgettable, but the second of his works here, "Intercomunicazione" for cello and piano, is fantastic. At 21 minutes by far the longest work here; the way it unfolds slowly and patiently is brilliant, and the piano keeps only the slighest of supporting roles.

Mauricio Kagel's "Unguis incarnatus est" is scored for piano and an unspecified instrument and attempts to dialogue with Liszt's music. Palm fills in the blank with cello. Penderecki's "Capriccio per Siegfried Palm" is one of the several pieces which Penderecki composed for Palm. There's also "Music for Cello and Piano", a piece by Earle Brown (I've never heard of him either), which is rather meandering and unimpressive.

The piece by Xenakis, "Nomos alpha", may be the most interesting piece on the disc. While Xenakis came to fame in the 1950's with compositions based on very strict mathematical rules, "Nomos alpha" was developed nearly entirely through chance, with the roll of two dice deciding the musical turns of the work. It's quite a fascinating exercise. Joining the piece to make the best of the collection is Isang Yun's exotic and pensive "Glissees", which has certainly motivated me to further explore the oeuvre of this Korean-German composer.

I am a great fan of modern compositions for cello. The cello concertos of Ligeti and Lindberg--as well as the numerous pieces for the instrument by Sofia Gubaidulina--are among my favourite works. Still, I got very little joy out of this collection. Most of the material hasn't aged well at all. There's a lot of abrasive clunking that, as much as it helped certain composers made progress with their ideas, should have never made it out of Darmstadt. Other works pale in comparison to more substantial compositions by the same composers. If you're expecting avant-garde cello music as brilliant as, say, Ligeti's "Cello Concerto" (another work dedicated to Palm), you will probably be quite disappointed. All in all this is my least favourite of the "20/21" releases.

The King of the Avant-Garde Cello.......2003-01-11

During the heady early days of the avant-garde in Europe, the performing artist gained an unprecedented influence on the language and development of composition. Certainly works had been created for individual artists in other periods, but never was there such a deep relationship between the personality and techniques of a performer and the language of a composer. You can't contemplate the work of John Cage without noting the influence of David Tudor (who was often more of a collaborator, rather than an interpreter). And of course, Berio's vocal music is inconcievable without the influence of his wife, Cathy Berberian. (She became so well known she even got a line in a Steely Dan song.) Less well known, but no less influential is the cellist Siegfried Palm. He is the dedicatee or the commissioning party for many of the late 20th century masterworks for cello, including the Ligeti Cello Concerto and Feldman's Cello and Orchestra. This CD gives a marvelous introduction to this amazing performer and some of the composers with whom he worked.

Palm includes two works by Webern on the disc, the posthumously published Sonata for Cello and Piano and the Three Short Pieces for Cello and Piano. Both are from Webern's early atonal aphoristic period. The real surprise of this album is the Sonata, of who's existance I was unaware. It's a lovely little work, not particularly important in the composer's output, but welcome nonetheless.

Perhaps in terms of sheer sound, the Xenakis piece Nophos alpha is the tour de force of the recording. I am not generally a big fan of music for solo instruments outside of the piano or organ, as I find the tonal range fairly limited, or else the extended techniques employed self consciously. But this work floored me. Xenakis writes an amazing nearly fifteen minute work for solo cello in which you never are aware that only one instrument is playing. The richness of the sound that come out of Palm's instrument is truly amazing. The work is in a later style for Xenakis, less interested in stochastic mathmatical formalism and more interested in game theory and chance devices. But the sound produced is divorced from it's means of generation, just a truly powerful and emotionally devastating work.

Mauricio Kagel's piece, Unguis Incartatus Est is a parody piece based on one of Lizst's late works. I actually bought the CD for this work (and the Earle Brown later in the disc) as I was not familiar with the work of this influential composer. I was not disappointed with this piece. Using the first few notes of the Lizst piece and subjecting them to various manipulations, Kagel creates a work that is at once serious, playful, theatrical, moving and quite beautiful. The Brown piece is also relatively important, partly because Brown is woefully underrepresented on disc. Music for Cello and Piano is one of Brown's graphic scores, where much of the performance is left up to the instrumentalists. And yet, the work has all of Brown's hallmarks, a sort of illogical logic, and a serene yet unpredictable sense of rhythm.

The Perndercki piece is fun, but ultimately lightweight. More of an etude than a real piece, Likewise, the Zimmermann Four Short Studies is also cerebrally interesting, but not particularly important as a work of art. But the Zimmermann work Intercommicazione is marveous and very impressive, perhaps the second most solid work on the disc just behind the Xenakis. The cello takes the lead in the work initially, with violent chords and delicate fillagree in the piano. But as the work progresses the piano begins an equal partnership with the cello and leads to a shattering climax. Zimmermann here is wild, darkly serial, and yet with an arc and romantic sweep that many other serial composers lacked. I love this work.

Performances are astounding. During much of the Xenakis you find yourself trying to figure out how Palm does it. You hear one line on the cello in harmonics, scuttering about, while another holds a sustained whispy high note that doesn't ever seem to change bows. It's a real mystery without the score! And Palm's tonal variations are picked up beautifully on DG's excellent remastering. Also impressive is Aloys Kontarsky, another important Darmstadt performer (he and his brother are well known for premiering Stockhausen's Mantra.) Kontarsky knows this repertoire completely and makes an excellent foil for Palm.

Tracks:

Oboe Quartet For Oboe, Violin, Viola, Violoncello
Statement - Remembering Aaron
Riconoscenza Per Goffredo Petrassi
Rhapsodic Musings
Fantasy - Remembering Roger
A 6 Letter Letter For English Horn In F
Figment For Cello Alone
Figment II - Remembering Mr. Ives - For Cello Alone

Tracks:

Piri For Oboe Solo
Quartet For Oboe And String Trio - I
Quartet For Oboe And String Trio - II
Quartet For Oboe And String Trio - III

Customer Reviews:

Heinz Holliger's sublime oboe music.......2005-08-07

This is a stunningly beautiful set of music, but it does seem that ECM became a bit too enamored of the concept. The core is two oboe quartets by Elliott Carter and Isang Yun, both dedicated to and performed by Heinz Holliger, one of the world's leading oboists. That was the logical core of a 1-disc Holliger release that would also include "A 6 Letter Letter" by Carter and "Piri" by the Korean composer, both solo pieces. But having assembled virtuosos Thomas Zehetmair on violin, Thomas Demenga on cello and Ruth Killius on viola, solo works by Carter were added, the "4 Lauds" for violin and "Figments 1 & 2" for cello, leading to the idea of a 2-disc set, one disc each for Carter and Isang Yun. So we end up with a lavish and expensive package.

However, as I said, all the music is superb. Keeping in mind that this is primarily a Heinz Holliger recording, I am thankful for it because otherwise who knows when or if I ever would have heard anything by Isang Yun (1917-1995), a Korean dissident whose career was mainly spent in Germany? Though he participated in the Darmstadt circle, his music is simpler than Carter's, influenced by Asian folk music, and Holliger's performances are lyrical and lovely, very much in the ECM tradition.

The Carter disc is top-notch chamber music. The 2001 "Oboe Quartet" is one of the best of Carter's streamlined late works, with sparkling, witty interchanges between the oboe and strings. The solo pieces for violin and cello are fascinating, scintillating. It is striking how the late Carter has come to embody a classical sensibility, a post-tonal Mozartian elan.

Might Ears Won't Adjust.......2004-03-19

Having listened to this numerous times, I can only come to the conclusions that my ears will need much more education if they are to like this style on music, but at the same time, I well appreciate the musical skill of performance here. I risked purchasing this with both purposes in mind, having the highest regard for Holliger.

Some of the Carter compositions easily conform to what I like to listen to, while I'm afraid the Yun selections sound like whale communication to me.

I will continue the experiment though, and listen with an open mind and ear.

Great music, pity about the price.......2003-11-14

First, the bad news. There's no way an 80-minute recording should be on two full-price discs.

Then, the reasons why you should still think about buying this recording. They are two, the music and the performances.

Elliott Carter's music has become more and more delightfully lyrical as he has grown older, and almost all of the Carter on this disc is from the last few years. The Oboe Quartet is a great piece, hyperactive yet blessed with a miraculous lightness reminiscent of an atonal Haydn. The Four Lauds (one from 1984, the rest very recent) are effectively a 12-minute suite for solo violin, and combine superlatively idiomatic violin writing with a warm lyricism. A Six Letter Letter conjures miraculous melodies from only six notes of the chromatic scale, while the two Figments (the first I think a rather better work than the second) are expressive miniatures for solo cello.

The Yun pieces aren't quite on the same high level as the Carter, but are still impressive. Piri, an intense, keening oboe solo, impresses with its expressionist Angst and microtonal bends, though it is probably a little too long. The Oboe Quartet--Yun's last major work--contrasts slightly dutiful neoclassical outer movements with a deeply expressive, almost atomized slow movement.

Performances are outstanding. Zehetmair and Demenga are outstanding string soloists, but the real star of the disc is the phenomenal Heinz Hollger. He may no longer be young, but his oboe playing is still phenomenally virtuosic and expressive.

Master musicianship.......2003-07-17

OK, yes, granted, it's overpriced and it spreads one CD's worth of music over two, but the music-making in this set is extraordinary. Most of the pieces by Carter are available elsewhere, but the Four Lauds - extroverted violin solos the composer has arranged into a Bach-like suite - are not, and they are worth the cost of the ticket all by themselves. The Oboe Quartet is one of Carter's most attractive works of recent years, and Holliger and Co. serve up a muscular reading that is perhaps less elegant than the premiere recording on Bridge, but every bit as convincing. The music of Yun was new to me, but I found it immediately engaging. Holliger traverses the extended landscape of "Piri" with delicacy and impeccable phrasing, and anyone who can hold one's attention through a 14-minute oboe solo as consistently as he does deserves some kind of musican-of-the-decade award. Crisp, 3-D sound.

ECM's chintzy playing times.......2003-07-04

I'm getting sorely tired of ECM's chintzy playing times. They're charging full-price for a two-cd release whose total playing time is 81 minutes. That will fit on a single cd. I'm giving this release a pass, despite my admiration for several of the featured musicians (Zehetmair, Holliger, Demenga) and my interest in the repertoire.

Demenga Plays Hosokawa, J.S. Bach, Isang Yun

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Demenga Plays Hosokawa, J.S. Bach, Isang Yun
Thomas Demenga , Toshio Hosokawa , Johann Sebastian Bach , and Isang Yan
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Isang Yun: My Land, My People!; Exemplum in Memoriam Kwangju

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Notice: It's not a political works!

Isang Yun: My Land, My People!; Exemplum in Memoriam Kwangju

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My Land, My People: 1. Movement: Rjoksa (History)
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Notice: It's not a political works!.......2000-11-15

Isang Yun was humanist and liberalist. But his motherland's cruel government was gifted bridle-communist and traitor. He was really wished motherland's reunification and Korean people's liberation to dictatorship. These works are NOT a political works. This CD's main work-Cantata 'My Country, my People!(Korean original title: Naui Dang, Naui Minjokiyo!)' was composed in 1986/87. It was premiered at Pyongyang-capital of Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This solemn work's lyrics are purely Korean-written by many Korean poets-because it was dedicated to his motherland. And its musical idiom is very easier and 'traditional' than his other works. You can hear Korean folk rhythm and melody in last movement! Other work is purely orchestral piece-Exemplum, in memoriam Kwangju. Its material is tragic and disastrous event-Kwangju Pro-democracy Civil Uprising(1980.5.18~27). So many people were killed and wounded brutally by soldiers(Survivors testified over 2000 people were slaughtered). Yun used very extreme dynamic marks-ffff, fffff and pppppp-and large orchestra include four trumpets, two timpanies and many percussions because expression of anger and lament. This recording's Performers are all Korean(in North Korea) and located in Pyongyang. Maybe you think its performance rate is low, don't worry that. The Symphony Orchestra of DPRK and Rak-Won Song and Dance Ensemble(Chorus) shows very highest ensemble ability. When the Symphony Orchestra of DPRK was performed in Warsaw's Autumn(1986), Critics of Western were very surprised because they performed nearly perfect.

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outstanding flute works
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Prepare yourself for a redefinition of the flute, for you are about to experience a range of expression and color hitherto unexplored through this revered instrument. Flutist Linda Wetherill has been exploring for decades, and she has returned from her journeys with immeasurable riches, a mere fraction of which are encapsulated in this recording. Born in Milwaukee, Linda Wetherill graduated from the Eastman School of Music, having been awarded there the coveted Performer's Certificate. The desire to expand her musical horizons prompted her to leave for Europe, where she became first a member of the Garbarino Chamber Ensemble in Milan, then principal flutist of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. This prestigious position, however, did not satisfy all her evolving personal artistic needs, and two years later, when she learned that Pierre Boulez had just established the "new music" center IRCAM in Paris, Linda auditioned and was appointed solo flutist of the resident Ensemble Intercontemporain. This move from essentially mainstream chamber and orchestral playing to intensive interaction with many of the greatest contemporary composers of the world was a major turning point for her. Working directly with composers Boulez, Stockhausen, Halffter, Messiaen, Berio, Holliger and Kagel, she developed a prestigious and authoritative! solo repertoire which carried her to European festivals and to NY's Carnegie Hall to premiere Stockhausen's Im Freundschaft as winner of East & West Artists International Competition.

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outstanding flute works.......2003-09-22

A great CD of hitherto unknown to me flute pieces by an amazing performer. Highlights are the Arnaoudov and Vali!

A Furious Artisan Indeed.......2000-11-14

I am totally "in awe" of this CD of Linda performing solo flutes, throughout it's entireity. She amazes me every time I listen to her or this recording. The intensity of her artistry, command of the instruments & interpretations of the amazing compositions are awe-inspiring to myself, also a flutist. The repertoire is very up-to-date, feeding my hungry ears. Linda's command of the flutes, inspirational composers, along with remarkable audio engineering & a beautiful CD package make this a treasure. [...]