Hyeyoon Park, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Gergely Madaras - Silenced (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: I. Nocturne. Moderato
02. Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: II. Scherzo. Allegro
03. Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: III. Passacaglia. Andante - Cadenza attacca
04. Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: IV. Burlesque. Allegro con brio - Presto
05. Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra: I. Allegro maestoso
06. Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra: II. Adagio
07. Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra: III. Finale
08. Theme with Variations in B-Flat Major, Op. 3

Winner of the 2009 ARD International Music Competition, violinist Hyeyoon Park has made a name for herself as a soloist and chamber musician, performing with the likes of Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Kian Soltani, Timothy Ridout and Benjamin Grosvenor. On her first album for Linn, Silenced, she partners Gergely Madaras and WDR Sinfonieorchester in a beautiful programme that showcases two composers who were at odds with the system in place. Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto was banned for its ‘formalist distortions’ and only premiered in 1955 after Stalin’'s death. Refusing to join the Nazi-aligned Kultuurkamer, Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans’ work was banned. Her Concert Piece for Violin and Orchestra, composed in grief, is introspective and bitter in tone. A youthful academic exercise, Shostakovich’s Variations Op. 3 brings the album to a rumbustious end.

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