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Concert in Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Isang Yun’s Death
Joseph Joachim Hall, UdK Berlin, 25 November 2025, 7:30 pm
The Sixties: Reaction – Awakening
György Ligeti: Ramifications for twelve solo strings (1968/69)
Krzysztof Penderecki: Capriccio for oboe and strings (1965)
Isang Yun: Colloïdes sonores for ten solo strings (1961)
Xilin Wang / Ying Wang: Reaktion – Aufbruch / Reaction – Awakening (2025) – world premiere, commissioned works for IYG
Viola Wilmsen (oboe), 13 strings, Holger Groschopp (cond.)
The situation of the avant-garde around and after 1960 is to be sensually experienced in a concert with works by Ligeti, Penderecki and Yun. Complemented by two new, contrasting compositions for string ensemble by Xilin Wang (‘Reaction’) and Ying Wang (‘Awakening’): Composers from China in Berlin, father and daughter, representing different generations and showing divergent stylistic orientations. Both Xilin Wang and Isang Yun are victims of dictatorships. Ligeti also experienced fascism and Stalinism. Ying Wang stands for an open, optimistic attitude, for the future. For further details, we kindly ask you to write an e-mail to IYG.
Recently posted on YouTube:
Diversity in Harmony. Yun House Concerts 2024. A Short Film. – 22:41
Diversity in Harmony. Yun House Concerts 2024. A Short Compilation. – 4:48
Yun House Concerts.
Entrance free, donations wellcome
‘East West Listening’:
Concerts at the Yun House Berlin 2025
5 Yun-House Berlin, Sakrower Kirchweg 47, 14089 Berlin-Kladow
Sunday, 26 October 2025, 4 p.m. – Also as Yun House Live-Stream
Breeze Isang Yun
Compositions by Isang Yun:
Trio for Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn (1992)
Allegro. Etude I for Violoncello solo (1993)
Piri for Oboe solo (1971)
Dolce. Etude V for Violoncello solo (1993)
Festlicher Tanz. Bläserquintett (1988)
Breeze-Quintet:
Jill Jeschek (flute), Annelien Van Wauwe (clarinet),
Juri Vallentin (oboe), Marceau Lefèvre (bassoon),
Přemysl Vojta (horn)
and Isang Enders (violoncello)
With the Breeze Quintet, a top-class ensemble of the younger generation has been recruited to perform the music of Isang Yun. Isang Enders, who became principal cellist of the Staatskapelle Dresden at the age of 20, is now an internationally successful soloist. – With the support of the GVL Foundation and the Spandau Cultural Office, Fund for Decentralized Cultural Work.
Exhibitions in the “Chinese Room”
Scores: exhibition on Yun’s “Riul” (1968) & Piano Trio (1972/75)
Art: exhibition Günter Ris, paintings (chalk on paper, since 1996)
With the creation of our video channel, we intend to gradually make accessible to the visitors of our website the most exemplary recordings of Isang Yun’s compositions (see the video clips in the catalogue of works), as well as introductions to his works, and our concerts at the Yun-Haus Berlin.
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In notation and sound, here is a recording of String Quartet VI, which took place in April 1992 after a rehearsal of the Amati Quartet in Berlin with and in the presence of Isang Yun. We put this online so that those interested can study the performance of the dynamic indications and other specifications of the notation. See also: Images (live from 5 Nov. 1997), Contemplation for two violas, as well as the then spectacular Symphony I with all four movements (1982/(83), etc.