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Album Dali (Passerelle)
Oct 17, 2024
The Dali (Passerelle in Korean) program is centered around works all originating from the encounter between different musical cultures, while reflecting the artistic personality of Seohyeon Kim, who unites Korean and French cultures. The first part of the program is dedicated to French composers, and the other part presents three pieces commissioned for this recording.
The Dali (Passerelle in Korean) program focuses on works all originating from the encounter between different musical cultures, while reflecting the artistic personality of Seohyeon Kim, who unites Korean and French cultures. The first part of the program is dedicated to French composers who, in their time, showed a great interest in non-European music: Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Maurice Delage. Their works were arranged to fit a smaller ensemble: apart from the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, arranged by David Walter, the arrangements were made by the composition students of the Paris Conservatory under the direction of Cyril Lehn. The objective of these arrangements was twofold: first, to preserve the original character of the composition despite the arrangement, but also, for the vocal works, to offer a purely instrumental version, with the sung part sometimes given to the flute, sometimes distributed throughout the orchestra: a real challenge for both the arrangers and the instrumentalists, the latter having to adapt their playing to impart a certain vocality. The other part of the program presents three pieces commissioned for this recording. These creations had to meet a strong constraint: the use of musical material from a very popular Korean genre, the Arirang songs.
For more information:
https://www.conservatoiredeparis.fr/fr/medias/publication/dali-passerelle