Unsuk Chin

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Alpha
Release Date
April 10, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Unsuk Chin
    • PERFORMER
      Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Bleuse, Samuel Favre, Dimitri Vassilakis
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 10, 2026
    • UPC
      3701624512005
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1200
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prologue: Dramatic Opening of the Curtain

      Composer: Unsuk Chin

      Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

      Conductor: Pierre Bleuse

    2. II. Lament of the Bald Singer

      Composer: Unsuk Chin

      Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

      Conductor: Pierre Bleuse

    3. III. The Grinning Fortuneteller with the False Teeth

      Composer: Unsuk Chin

      Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

      Conductor: Pierre Bleuse

    4. IV. Episode between Bottles and Cans

      Composer: Unsuk Chin

      Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

      Conductor: Pierre Bleuse

    5. V. Dance around the Shacks

      Composer: Unsuk Chin

      Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

      Conductor: Pierre Bleuse

    6. VII. The Hunt for the Quack’s Plait

      Composer: Unsuk Chin

      Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

      Conductor: Pierre Bleuse

    7. Double Concerto

      Composer: Unsuk Chin

      Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

      Performer: Dimitri Vassilakis, Samuel Favre

      Conductor: Pierre Bleuse

    8. I. Palimpsest

      Composer: Unsuk Chin

      Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

      Conductor: Pierre Bleuse

    9. II. Notturno Urbano

      Composer: Unsuk Chin

      Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

      Conductor: Pierre Bleuse

    10. III. Passacaglia

      Composer: Unsuk Chin

      Ensemble: Ensemble InterContemporain

      Conductor: Pierre Bleuse


The Ensemble InterContemporain and it's musical director Pierre Bleuse continue their monographs on the great figures of contemporary musical composition. After the multi-award-winning Ligeti, it is the composer Unsuk Chin who is celebrated here. Of Korean origin, she moved to Germany in the 1980s. Her music shines with an immediate sensuality, and the inexhaustible transformations of her instrumental polyphony produce unprecedented sound constellations. This programme presents her piece Gougalon (2009/12), which evokes the memory of the travelling amateur theatres of her native country, with deliberately offbeat instrumentation in six episodes. She presents it as 'imaginary folk music that is stylised, fractured and only appears to be primitive.' Chin titled her 2013 piece for large ensemble Graffiti. All sound registers are exploited in a colourful, lively, and varied manner. 'The musical language of Graffiti oscillates between roughness and refinement, complexity and transparency,' says the composer. Her double concerto for piano and percussion completes this programme.