Leiviskä

Whatever the reason Leiviskä has remained a shadowy figure, conductor Dalia Stasevska has now brought to light three of her orchestral works in f ine performances by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Sibelius dominates the international reputation of Finnish music, but as this disc shows there’s plenty more. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Helvi Leiviskä’s Piano Concerto of 1935 makes no huge stylistic leaps from, say, Brahms’s Second, but builds interesting dialogues for soloist and orchestra. The First Symphony (1947) trades... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…