Klarinet Archive - Posting 000341.txt from 1996/12

From: thehat@-----.org
Subj: Yun quintet
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 20:37:21 -0500

In a message dated 12-10-96 INTERNET: peter.stoll=UTO wrote to ** ALL **:
Ip> David Hattner, are you out there?

Ip> How did your premiere of the Isang Yun Quintet go? Tell us what the
Ip> piece is like; is it slow and sustained like his "Monologue" for bass
Ip> clarinet?

The concert was quite successful, from a musical standpoint. The organizer
had no budget for advertising, so aside from a large poster outside Alice
Tully Hall, there was no promotion. The audience consisted mainly of Korean
businessmen who had paid for the concert. There was, sadly no review, either.

The quinet was the last work on the program. It was the best received as it
is the most listener friendly of the works on the program. The "softer"
sonorities (less dissonant) and the virtuosity of the parts give the audience
more to latch on to. I was told by a German musicologist and associate of
Yun's who attended our concerts (with Mr. Yun's daughter) that Brunner has
had similar success with the piece.

Stylistically, the piece has both slow - sustained sections and rhapsodic and
fast sections. The coda is probably the most difficult section -fast
articulation and fast passages up around high b-flat. THe last note is a high
b natural FFFF - rather dramatic.

I have only heard a few other works by Yun (aside from the 6 on the concert,
of which I played in 3). I am told the clarinet concerto is a terrific work.
There is also a trio for clarinet - cello -harp which I have heard and it is
nice. The second quintet is longer and less dissonant than the first. All of
the clarinet works have been recorded by Eduard Brunner, for whom most of
them were written.

I am not sure if the concert was recorded. I have been rather busy. I'll
probably find out soon.

David Hattner
clarinetist-at-large, NYC
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