Isang Yun's compositions often symbolize the relationship between heaven, earth, and humanity through instrumentation, with strings representing heaven, percussion and brass for earthly powers, and woodwinds as mediating forces.
Recording & Production
This CD includes a live recording of the premiere of Isang Yun's 'Namo' from May 4, 1971, featuring sopranos Dorothy Dorow, Maria de Francesca, and Slavka Taskova with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Composition History
Isang Yun destroyed many of his early works, considering only those composed out of inner necessity with formal consistency as valid expressions.
Compositional Technique
In his work 'Bara', Isang Yun organizes athematic but individualized sound planes to create an organic, involuntary growth, with arching courses and static, block-like sound layering.
Composer Biography
Isang Yun, the composer, received the Seoul Culture Prize in 1955, the highest distinction he achieved in his home country of Korea.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Isang Yun's East Asian understanding of sound emphasizes the 'single tone' with an emphatic development to a long-drawn-out sound center and a distinct conclusion.
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