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Rautavaara: Modificata, Towards the Horizon & Incantations
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World 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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Nine Lessons & Carols: King's College Cambridge
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Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Perhaps the lower voices aren't quite as smoothly blended here as they usually are at King's, but generally the level of achievement reached in these live performances is enviable. — More…
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Rautavaara's First Symphony, written in 1955 in four movements, was recast in 1988 – not wholly convincingly – as a diptych. In 2003 Rautavaara added a new slow movement based on a song composed... — More…
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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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[An] absorbing, classily sung anthology of Finnish Christmas music. — More…
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Sibelius & Rautavaara: Violin Concertos
Tobias Feldmann (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
I love the parallels between these two Finnish concertos which Feldman and Kantarow draw out, from the especially ethereal treatment of the opening of the Sibelius (which anticipates the disembodied... — More…
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Fantasia: Rautavaara, Szymanowski & Ravel
Anne Akiko Meyers (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Kristjan Jarvi
Like many of his later works [the Fantasia is] elegiac in character, with a strong, lush tonal base: a warm cushion of orchestral sound supporting the continuous solo line…Meyers plays with intensity... — More…
