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Echoes of Exile

Sueye Park

Label: BIS
EAN / barcode: 7318599923321
Release date: 1 August 2025

Sueye Park is no stranger to solo violin concerts. Following her acclaimed recording of the Paganini Caprices (jpc 7806188) and a concert titled "Journey through a Century" (jpc 10572267), she now presents another solo project: "Echoes of Exile", a project that is relevant in the current turbulent times. Park offers diverse perspectives on the theme of exile with works composed between the 1920s and 1950s, both by major composers who were forced by political circumstances to leave their country and by others who sought inner exile. Two pieces by composers who left their homeland for artistic reasons, George Enescu and Eugène Ysaÿe, frame three important and very different works by composers who were forced into exile, either because their existence was threatened, or because of a sense of alienation in their respective countries. The works of Béla Bartók and Paul Ben-Haim show composers who, in their longing for their homeland, not only managed to emphasize the value of their culture even more strongly, but also anchored it in their new environment. Bernd Alois Zimmermann's sonata, with its unique expressive language, reveals the concerns and hardships of a young composer in the devastated post-war Germany.

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