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Hilary Hahn - Paris
RecommendedChausson, Rautavaara, Prokofiev
Hilary Hahn (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck
Hahn praises the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France as one where ‘emotion is embraced rather than exaggerated’, and the disc is an embodiment of this crucial virtue...She admits [the Prokofiev... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, Concerto Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Einojuhani Rautavaara: Lost Landscapes
RecommendedWorks For Violin and Orchestra
Simone Lamsma (violin), Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Robert Trevino
The two Serenades which Rautavaara composed at the very end of his life for Hilary Hahn were first recorded by their dedicatee last year, but it's more illuminating still to hear them in the... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Rautavaara & Martinů: Piano Concertos No. 3
RecommendedOlli Mustonen (piano), Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska
BIS is to be commended for producing an imaginatively programmed disc and giving the music brilliant performances and superb recorded sound. To round out the picture, Jean-Pascal Vachon’s program... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th December 2023
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The tone of Nils Schweckendiek’s Helsinki Chamber Choir can curdle towards the top, although its strong bones reveal its origins as Finland’s professional radio choir. — More…
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Rautavaara: Angels and Visitations
RecommendedElmar Oliveira (violin)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Rautavaara's wholly original Violin Concerto is hauntingly accessible and grips the listener completely...Segerstam provides a shimmering backing and directs a committed and persuasively spontaneous... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The quality is captured by the Helsinki Chamber Choir and soloists, who have to negotiate difficult glissandi, microtonal passages and whispers, and also by a superb recording made at Järvenpää,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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Rautavaara: Modificata, Towards the Horizon & Incantations
RecommendedWorld Première Recordings
Truls Mørk (cello), Colin Currie (percussion)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
A late and lush harvest of works by octogenarian Einojuhani Rautavaara continues apace. Here we have eagerly awaited documentation of his two latest neo-Romantic concertos, in beautifully recorded... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Contemporary
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Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Rautavaara: Kaivos (The Mine)
Hannu Niemelä (Simon), Johanna RusanenKartano (Ira), Jorma Hynninen (Commissar) Jaakko Kortekangas (Priest), Mati Turi (Marko), Petri Pussila (Vanha) & Tuomas Katajala (A miner)
Kaivos Chorus & Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
The Mine of the title is a microcosm of both society and the individual soul - and its inhabitants are cast from strength. The great Jorma Hynninen is in untarnished voice as the dictator figure,... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, Opera Choice
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No other new music stands to benefit more from extensive exposure, not so much because of its quality (which is beyond question), as because of an almost tangible connection with nature, than... — More…
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