Korean Tapestry: Korean Art Songs by Leading Korean Women Composers
8.579129 (Naxos Records, CD)
DDD
FIRST RELEASE (26 May 2023)
Playing time: 68'00"
Tracks: 17
Booklet pages: 20
℗ 2023 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd
© 2023 Naxos Rights (Europe) Ltd
Main country of recording: United States of America
Country of manufacture: Germany
Reviewer: John Dante Prevedini
Review of Korean Tapestry: Korean Art Songs by Leading Korean Women Composers published on 7 August 2023
Kyoung Cho, soprano
Won Cho, bass
Eun-Hee Park, piano
A love for vocal music has maintained its presence throughout Korea's turbulent history, and Ga-Gok or ‘Art Song’ has long offered opportunities to convey personal sentiments and messages through lyrical settings of the nation's poetry. Today’s often deeply expressive Korean art songs uniquely combine traditional Korean/Asian musical elements within the structure of Western music. They feature the finest examples of solo and duet songs by leading Korean female composers, thus providing new insights into Korean society and its modern musical culture.
Recorded: 15 (tracks 1, 4 and 7) and 19 (track 2) November 2021, 4 (tracks 3, 11 and 15), 6 (tracks 6, 9, 12 and 16) and 10 (track 10) December 2021 and 19 (tracks 8, 13, 14 and 17) and 22 (track 5) January 2022 at Bates Brothers Recording, Hueytown, Alabama, USA.