Product DescriptionSolo concertos are important milestones in Unsuk Chins development as a creative artist: in each of them, the solo instruments possibilities are explored in terms of its sonorities and of the performers virtuosity and re-examined in a new light
Each of the three solo instruments featured in the present release has certain historic and acoustic properties that affect the way in which it works in harmony or in conflict with the orchestra
The one and only! This is a world premier recording of Unsuk Chin concertos with Myung-Whun Chung and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Receiving critical acclaim for her opera Alice in Wonderland and other works, Unsuk Chin is currently the composer-in-residence for the SPO, promoting contemporary music to listeners
The new album features soloists Alban Gerhardt for the cello concerto, Sunwook Kim for the piano concerto which is the second collaboration with the SPO after the Beethoven 5th, and Wu Wei for the Sheng concerto