Credits:

Luigi Piovano

Description:

A tribute to Yun Isang, whose life was marked by tragedy!An album paying tribute to the tragic life of Yun Isang, featuring Luigi Piovano, principal cellist of the Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, and pianist Aldo Orvieto, who studied under Chiccolini!The concerto features a collaboration with Tatsuya Shimono and the Japan Philharmonic!Against the backdrop of the Cold War between North and South Korea and the tensions between Eastern and Western cultures, Yun Isang (19171995) led an adventurous and tragic life worthy of a novel or film. In 1967, Yun was abducted by South Korean intelligence agents in West Berlin and taken to Seoul, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment for being a North Korean spy. Although his sentence was reduced on appeal, he was ultimately released in 1969 thanks to a petition signed by prominent cultural figures from around the world and the support of the German Fo