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Concert in Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Isang Yun’s Death
Joseph Joachim Hall, UdK Berlin, 3 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
3 Yun-House Berlin, Sakrower Kirchweg 47
Sunday, 1 June 2025, 5 p.m. – Also as Yun House Live-Stream XXVI
A Journey to the Stars
Gabriel Iranyi: Quartet for Flute, Violin, Violoncello and Piano (2009)
Olga Rayeva: A Journey to the Stars for flute, violin, cello and piano (2024) – world premiere
Isang Yun: Quartet with Intermezzo for flute, violin, violoncello and piano (1988)
modern art quartet
Klaus Schöpp (flute), Theodor Flindell (violin), Adele Bitter (violoncello), Yoriko Ikeya (piano)
Three musical languages, three works by migrants of different generations in Berlin: Gabriel Iranyi, born in 1946 and in Berlin since 1988, is of Romanian-Hungarian origin; Olga Rayeva was born in Moscow in 1971, Isang Yun in southern Korea in 1917. – With the support of the GVL Foundation and the Spandau Cultural Office, Decentralized Cultural Work Fund.
Exhibitions in the small “Chinese Room”
Scores: exhibition on Yun’s “Riul” (1968) & Piano Trio (1972/75)
Art: exhibition Günter Ris, paintings (chalk on paper, since 1996)
3a Yun-House Berlin, Sakrower Kirchweg 47
Sunday, 15 June 2025, 5 p.m.
Bach – Reger, Yun – Holliger
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude in B minor, BWV 923
Isang Yun: Shao Yang Yin (1966)
Heinz Holliger: Lebenslinien [Lifelines] (2021)
Max Reger: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach in B minor, Op. 81 (1904/08)
Tomoki Park (piano)
The opening of the aria “To fathom His omnipotence” from J. S. Bach’s Cantata 128 “On Ascension Day alone” became the starting point for Max Reger in 1904 for a monumental cycle of 14 variations plus a fugue. The Prelude in B minor, with which Tomoki Park introduces his recital, is a fully composed improvisation with a fantastically sweeping character. Tomoki Park juxtaposes Yun’s Shao Yang Yin (1968), composed for the Basel musician and patron Antoinette Vischer, with Heinz Holliger’s Lebenslinien (2021), which is inspired not only by the biography of the great musician Clara Haskil.
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.