Unsuk Chin
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Boosey & Hawkes website
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| (At the world premiere of
Unsuk Chin's violin concerto) we are immediately drawn in by the basses
and xylophones beneath open strings and harmonics in the solo violin,
we have a sense that something significant is approaching, like a
huge observatory roof rolling slowly back to reveal the grand night
sky. Viviane Hagner's playing was
always clear above the orchestra, which supported or reacted to her
musical lines; her virtuoso passages led the dialogue with the orchestra.
The solo part tested the violin's possible range of sounds, particularly
through its use of the open strings and harmonics in the higher positions.
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