{"product_id":"alpha1200-unsuk-chin","title":"Unsuk Chin","description":"\u003cb\u003eUnsuk Chin\u003c\/b\u003e has achieved worldwide recognition through its immediate sensuality and intense colors. Her sound world glitters, sparkles and flashes in seemingly inexhaustible transformations of dense, polyphonic instrumental textures, generating ever-new constellations of sound. Yet the originality of her work lies not merely in its dazzling surfaces or refined orchestration, but in the multidimensional complexity of her compositional thinking, where color and structure form two sides of the same coin.\r\n\r\nChin has consistently resisted both aesthetic fashion and commercial superficiality, addressing the listener without compromise. As she stated on receiving the Arnold Schoenberg Prize in 2005, “complexity and communication need not be incommensurable quantities.” Although born in Korea and later settling in Germany, Chin does not seek to incorporate “authentic” Asian musical materials. Instead, her references to cultural traditions function as allusions and illusions — imagined, invented and transformed through her own musical language.\r\n\r\nThis recording brings together three key works that illuminate different facets of Chin’s aesthetic. \u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGougalōn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, inspired by childhood memories of itinerant street theatre, unfolds as a sequence of vividly characterized scenes, driven by highly expressive percussion and deliberately unconventional instrumental colors.\r\n\r\n\u003cb\u003eGraffiti\u003c\/b\u003e, written for large ensemble, explores a kaleidoscopic range of textures and contrasts, oscillating between roughness and refinement, complexity and transparency. At the centre of the programme stands the \u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouble Concerto for piano, percussion and ensemble\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, in which soloists and ensemble merge into a single “super-instrument”, producing extraordinarily intricate, poly-rhythmic processes.\r\n\r\nPerformed by the \u003cb\u003eEnsemble intercontemporain\u003c\/b\u003e under the direction of \u003cb\u003ePierre Bleuse\u003c\/b\u003e, with soloists \u003cb\u003eSamuel Favre\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eDimitri Vassilakis\u003c\/b\u003e, this album captures the intensity, precision and expressive power required to bring Chin’s uncompromising musical vision fully to life.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eEnsemble intercontemporain\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003ePierre Bleuse, Conductor\u003c\/strong\u003e","brand":"Alpha Classics","offers":[{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56742093881668,"sku":"ALPHA1200-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56742093914436,"sku":"ALPHA1200-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56742093947204,"sku":"ALPHA1200-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56742093979972,"sku":"ALPHA1200-5","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 512 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56742094012740,"sku":"ALPHA1200-21","price":35.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56742094045508,"sku":"ALPHA1200-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57344608796996,"sku":"ALPHA1200-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/ALPHA1200.jpg?v=1790686376","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/alpha1200-unsuk-chin","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}