Pal Paulikovics - Strings of Steel - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Seidener Faden -Silken Thread is WERGO's second album portrait of Younghi Pagh-Paan. The first appeared 26 years ago, and this new recording is long overdue, given the composer's increasing recognition in the field of New Music and the countless international awards she has accrued in recent years, among them the Berlin Art Prize in 2020. Born into a working class family in South Korea, Younghi Pagh-Paan has had a remarkable career she was a student in Seoul from 1965-72 before receiving a scholarship to study in Germany in 1974. One of her composition teachers was Klaus Huber, whom she later married. In 1994, Pagh-Paan was the first woman in Germany to be appointed a professor of composition. She has been an influential teacher and mentor to a younger generation and a role model for female composers around the world. Her works have been performed at the most prominent international festivals and have a strongly individual identity, combining western Modernism with elements of traditional Korean music such as microtonal variation rather than chromatic motion. The E-MEX Ensemble prepared these first recordings in close collaboration with the composer. The newer pieces arose in connection with Pagh-Paan's chamber opera InchMondschattenInch (Stuttgart, 2006) and deal with questions of human existence, mortality, and religious experience. The three older works included here, InchBIDAN-SILInch and the two InchTA-RYONGInch pieces, are anchored in the rituals and instrumental traditions of Korean folk music.

Lukasz Dlugosz - Laks Slowinski Pstrokonska-Nawratil [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/2000

Please Sir! (1916) is one of the first novels of the popular Hungarian author, Frigyes Karinthy (1887 - 1938), which tells his school years with a lot of humor and empathy. Endre Illes wrote InchAll Karinthy's writings have the violent, blinding brilliance of a spluttering Christmas sparkler. He wrote several thousand sketches, hundreds of stories, a few novels and two volumes of poetry. He experimented with literary forms and techniques plays, philosophical studies, anecdotes, reviews, articles. But no matter what he wrote, his message was always as fresh and sensitive as the first flash of the idea which inspired it. One could say that his real medium was the idea, the instant spark.Inch The work is read here by Pál Mácsai.