Recollection(s)
Christine Wu
- Label
- Channel Classics
- EAN / barcode
- 723385486268
- Release date
- 3 July 2026
- Format
- Digital
The violist and violist Christine Wu, winner of the CD Recording Prize with Outhere Music during the first Berlin Prize for Young Artists, explores on her new album "Recollection(s)" for Channel Classics Records the relationship between time and memory. On the violin she performs Saariaho's Nocturne, in which memories attempt to break through the boundlessness of time; Bach's Chaconne, whose recurring harmonic structure evokes a sense of awe, hope and transcendence; and Jeffrey Mumford's "eight musings … revisiting memories", a reinterpretation of musical fragments from earlier works. On the viola she presents Joan Tower's "Wild Purple" and Weinberg's Sonata for viola no. 2 op. 123, in which recurring rhythmic cells have the fragmented nature of remembering as their theme; as well as Stravinsky's Elegie, which makes logically successive memory processes audible.
Tracklist
- 01 Wild Purple 06:39
- 02 Nocturne 04:35
- 03 Eight Musings... Revisiting Memories: No. 1, — 00:33
- 04 Eight Musings... Revisiting Memories: No. 2, — 01:26
- 05 Eight Musings... Revisiting Memories: No. 3, — 01:09
- 06 Eight Musings... Revisiting Memories: No. 4, — 01:10
- 07 Eight Musings... Revisiting Memories: No. 5, — 00:35
- 08 Eight Musings... Revisiting Memories: No. 6, — 02:06
- 09 Eight Musings... Revisiting Memories: No. 7, — 01:21
- 10 Eight Musings... Revisiting Memories: No. 8, — 01:16
- 11 Elegy for Solo Viola 04:42
- 12 Viola Sonata No. 2, Op. 123 15:55
- 13 Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne 14:31
Source: MusicBrainz
