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02 Patrick Yim OneOne – New Music for Unaccompanied Violin
Patrick Yim
New Focus Recordings FCR411 (newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/patrick-yim-one-new-music-for-unaccompanied-violin)

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Strange, High Sky: I. Between Light and Shade - Listen on Spotify

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One – New Music for Unaccompanied Violin, a collection of world premiere recordings, is violinist Patrick Yim’s third album of solo violin music and features six works commissioned between 2020 and 2023 (New Focus Recordings FCR411 newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/patrick-yim-one-new-music-for-unaccompanied-violin).

Ilari Kaila’s high-energy moto perpetuo Solitude opens the disc. Juri Soo’s title track One is a cycle of 12 widely-varied vignettes representing the months of the year. All four opening works on the CD were written during the pandemic lockdown, Takuma Itoh’s A Melody from an Unknown Place and Páll Ragnar Pálsson’s Hermitage are both meditations on the loneliness and spirituality of the isolation. Matthew Schreibeis’ Fragile Remembrance and John Liberatore’s Strange, High Sky are both from 2023, the former essentially an ABA arc and the latter inspired by Lu Sun’s Wild Grass stories.

“Yim plays with virtuosity and powerful expression,” says the release blurb in a perfect assessment.

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