Isang Yun - Quartet For Oboe And String Trio - II.part

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Isang Yun
Biography
"A composer cannot view the world in which he lives with indifference. Human suffering, oppression, injustice... all that comes to me in my thoughts. Where there is pain, where there is injustice, I want to have a say in it through my music." - Isang Yun, 1983

Isang Yun was born on September 17, 1917 near the southeastern seaport Tongyông. After receiving the Seoul City Culture Award in 1955, he was able to study in Paris and Berlin from 1956 to 1959. From Germany, Yun was able to establish contact with and was a part of the international avant-garde.
In 1967 Yun was abducted from Berlin to Seoul by the Korean secret police, and was tortured and charged with high treason. In a political show trial he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first instance, but released in 1969 after international protests.
In 1971 he became a German citizen.
Yun taught composition at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin from 1970 to 1985, from 1974 on as a full professor. His oeuvre includes more than a hundred works, among them four operas and a number of instrumental concertos. In the 1980s he composed a series of five major, interrelated symphonies.
Isang Yun died on November 3, 1995 in Berlin, and was interred in a grave of honour provided by the City Senate.
http://www.yun-gesellschaft.de/
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This quartet is dedicated to Heinz Holliger. Holliger says:
"Isang Yun brought me the score of the newly completed quartet in 1994 (the year before the scheduled world premiere at the Vienna Musikverein). I was amazed at the unbroken vigour Isang Yun had wrenched from his frail body for the outer movements.
And then the middle movement, which was dematerialisation, disembodiment made sound - an utterance of pure spirit."

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• classical_music
• oboe
• violin
• viola
• cello
• quartet
• contemporary
• music
• Yun
• Yun_Isang
• dematerialisation
• visualization

[jamesoboe]

Such completely sublime music from the great composer Isang Yun, composed for the staggering talent of Heinz Holliger, who delivers a masterclass in stunning oboe playing. Such poise, such control, and such conviction of vision in its execution! This is why Holliger excites such admiration around the world. After hearing this clip I immediately ordered this recording online. Such a beautiful sound - round and effortlessly flexible. Matchless, in my opinion! A joy to hear.

[killahuasi]

Qué maravilla encontrar colores y sabores diferentes a los timbres de estos instrumentos!!!!

El oboe es un instrumento sublime, hermoso, único.... un abrazo a los oboístas!

[neonRobba]

incredibly beautiful!

[C0NTR4B455]

Can you post the rest of this pretty please!!

[velvetgold88]

well it's something very new feeling to me.

my body is almost cold even in summer,

but I feel that my body's getting warm somehow, when I hear his music..

can't explain why, i just feel real amazing.

[bersa888]

... he also managed to put echos from his native land in it... a very special "speaking" voice. Terrific oboe playing as well.

[hansungpil]

Not at all, so do your home work. Mom worries about you.

[ctimur]

And I'm wrtiring what I think as well, any problem?

[hansungpil]

yea I'm writing what I think. any problem?

[ctimur]

that's what you think.

[awewewetpowe]

It's truly different with Isang yun's other works. It has less move and so pieceful. I never heard any of this sound from Yun's..

[C0NTR4B455]

The master!! An absolutely unparrelled ear for subtle sonority...I love his music..Many thanks..What happened to part 1. though?