Yoon & Leonskaja

Unsuk Chin’s ›Frontispiece for Orchestra‹ rushes through the history of music as if in time-lapse sequence: She reworks tiny fragments and brief motifs, sequences of chords, harmonies and rhythmic patterns from works by Anton Bruckner, Richard Strauss and Johannes Brahms. Elements from Piotr Tchaikovsky’s ›Pathétique‹ also pass through this sonic prism – except that here they appear in a Boulezian manner: atonal, experimental, intellectual, free. Mozart’s Ninth Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, now in its original form, then reduce the breakneck speed and allow these rightly pop