It’s Time: Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series

Featuring

Junyan Chen
Fazil Say
Unsuk Chin
Sofia Gubaidulina
Eleanor Alberga

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Recording & Production

This album is part of the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series, celebrating the institution's 200 years of training musicians.

Recording & Production

The album was recorded in the Angela Burgess Recital Hall, a state-of-the-art facility at the Royal Academy of Music that opened in 2018.

Interpretation

Pianist Junyan Chen, who grew up in Shanghai playing Chinese music, has a strong connection to living composers who explore their cultural identity.

Compositional Technique

Fazil Say's Black Earth and Eleanor Alberga's It's Time both draw on their heritage, using improvisation and complex rhythms to evoke cultural references.

Composer's Artistic Vision

The album features four 'classical' composers who incorporate other genres and art forms into their music, reflecting their lives and cultural identities.