Younghi Pagh-Paan: Listening With the Heart

The music of Younghi Pagh-Paan for flute, guitar, and soprano leads us through a lifetime of openness and the search for identity. This portrait album contains mainly first recordings for soprano, flute and/or guitar, composed between 1975 and 2022. Angela Postweiler, Carin Levine and Tobias Klich present a compelling selection from Pagh-Paan’s music, which so strongly reflects her Korean roots and her life in Europe. By connecting her own persona with the foreign, she came to discover and develop an identity that continues until today. And it is a feminine identity. The female voice for which Younghi Pagh-Paan mostly likes to compose also speaks for her own self, but not necessarily about herself.