Unsuk Chin composes for traditional European ensembles and conventional instruments, but her style is influenced partly by non-European music, which particularly affects the tone colours that result. “Chin takes the violin on a journey to infinity and beyond…” (The Times)
24th March 2011
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“[Akrotischon-Wortspiel] is a terrific tour de force for soprano, the feisty Piia Komsi in this recording, whose lines vaporise the texts into syllables and weave them into the microtonal webs of instrumental sound. That same vivid aural imagination is shown in the other three works included here”
