Hi Res Download, Aho (composer)
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Special offer. Fagerlund & Aho: Bassoon Concertos
RecommendedBram van Sambeek (bassoon)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu, Dima Slobodeniouk
A truly captivating disc…Bram van Sambeek takes everything in his evidently extensive stride. The agility, conviction, impish humour and searing seriousness all stem from a remarkably rounded... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Concerto
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The works are markedly different in character, yet both exhibit an underlying enigmatic quality against which an array of moods and textures are explored through an ever-changing post-tonal... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Concerto Choice
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Special offer. Nielsen & Aho - Clarinet Concertos
Martin Fröst (clarinet)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Those who cherish earlier versions of Neilsen's masterpiece… will know how deep this music runs and how haunting it is. The young Swedish clarinettist give what I must say is the most searching... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Kalevi Aho: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Cello Concerto No. 2
Elina Vähälä (violin), Jonathan Roozeman (cello)
Kymi Sinfonietta, Olari Elts
Superb performances by Elina Vähälä and Jonathan Roozeman confirm the idiomatic nature of Aho’s writing (having tried out the solo parts himself), and Olari Elts secures a committed response... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Special offer. Brahms & Ligeti: Horn Trios
RecommendedMarie-Luise Neunecker (horn), Antje Weithaas (violin) & Silke Avenhaus (piano)
Neunecker has a fascinating horn sound. She distinguished effectively between open and stopped timbres, but even her open sound is quite narrow and constrained...any new recording [of the Brahms]... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2021, Also Recommended
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Aho’s concerto combines dissonance with an elegant Nielsen-like sound-world. — More…
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Special offer. Kalevi Aho: Sieidi & Symphony No. 5
Colin Currie
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk, Jaan Ots
Currie, for whom Sieidi was written, delivers a knockout account with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk...The Symphony, similarly intense and explosive, is a yet more ambitious... — More…
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Special offer. Kalevi Aho: Chamber Music
Samuli Peltonen (cello), Sonja Fräki (piano), Jaakko Kuusisto (violin), Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
The works here find him in various states of mind but mostly diligence and distress. The two pieces written to mourn fellow musicians are, in fact, the best. Lamento was created for the funeral... — More…
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Kromos is Sebastian Fagerlund’s way of exploring his own and the guitar’s capabilities...t’s also a wonderful way for the versatile Finnish guitarist Ismo Eskelinen to open this recital of 21st-century... — More…
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Special offer. Aho: Solo
Samuli Peltonen (cello), Hiyoli Togawa (viola), Piet Van Bockstal (oboe), Simon Reitmaier (clarinet), Bram van Sambeek (bassoon), Marie Luise Neunecker (horn), Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Some of these solo pieces started life as competition works, and it’s easy to see why. They are extremely technically demanding, which may not make for a wholly pleasant listening experience,... — More…
