{"id":23004,"date":"2024-03-25T17:54:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pureaudiorecordings.com\/product\/the-berlin-philharmonic-plays-unsuk-chin\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:20:41","slug":"the-berlin-philharmonic-plays-unsuk-chin","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/pureaudiorecordings.com\/en\/product\/the-berlin-philharmonic-plays-unsuk-chin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Berlin Philharmonic plays Unsuk Chin"},"content":{"rendered":"
She is one of the most vital voices in contemporary music: the composer Unsuk Chin. Since 2005, the Berliner Philharmoniker has enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with the Korean-born composer, whose music fascinates with its sheer endless variety of sound creations. She was recently honoured with the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. This edition presents outstanding recordings of Chin’s solo and orchestral works with Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Harding, Sakari Oramo and Sir Simon Rattle.<\/p>\n
Unsuk Chin’s music is a magical realm: new perspectives are constantly opening up, sometimes there are labyrinths of novel sounds and complex structures, then again moments of unearthly beauty. Her astonishing ingenuity, which permeates different cultural areas, lends each work an individual character. In doing so, the composer explores the limits of playing technique. All this makes the encounter with Chin’s music a \u2018continuous adventure\u2019 and an exciting journey of discovery for the Berliner Philharmoniker, which our edition would like to take you on.<\/p>\n
The violin concerto performed by Christian Tetzlaff and Simon Rattle was inspired by Balinese gamelan music. Violin and orchestra merge here in part into a collective solo instrument. The cello concerto with soloist and idea generator Alban Gerhardt is of a completely different nature – \u2018here the focus is on a rivalling tension between soloist and orchestra,\u2019 says Chin. Her vocal scene Le silence des Sir\u00e8nes is a vocal tightrope act. Soprano Barbara Hannigan performs the texts from Homer’s Odyssey and James Joyce’s Ulysses with dizzying virtuosity.<\/p>\n
The title of the orchestral work Rocan\u00e1, conducted by Daniel Harding, comes from Sanskrit and means \u2018space of light\u2019. Chin is concerned here with the translation of an aesthetic experience from the visible into the audible. The Berliner Philharmoniker associate special memories with the performance of Chor\u00f3s Chord\u00f3n: Simon Rattle conducted the commissioned work on their last tour of China, Korea and Japan. No less memorable was the evening on which Chin’s piano concerto with Sunwook Kim and Sakari Oramo was performed: for the first time after a break due to the pandemic, the orchestra was able to play in front of an audience in the main hall of the Philharmonie Berlin.<\/p>\n
In addition to the recordings on a Blu-ray and two CDs as well as a bonus film, the hardcover edition offers an attractively designed accompanying book with moir\u00e9 effect art by Takahiro Kurashima. Introductions to the works are supplemented by a detailed essay on the composer and her oeuvre.<\/p>\n
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1<\/strong> \nSir Simon Rattle, Conductor \nChristian Tetzlaff, violin<\/p>\n
Concerto for violoncello and orchestra<\/strong> \nMyung-Whun Chung, Conductor \nAlban Gerhardt, Violoncello<\/p>\n
Le silence des Sir\u00e8nes<\/strong> \nSir Simon Rattle, Conductor \nBarbara Hannigan, Soprano<\/p>\n
Choro\u0301s Chordo\u0301n<\/strong> \nSir Simon Rattle, Conductor<\/p>\n
Concerto for piano and orchestra<\/strong> \nSakari Oramo, conductor \nSunwook Kim, piano<\/p>\n