Ondine

This is an issue to rank alongside Segerstam's outstanding Helsinki PO coupling of the Legends and Tapiola (Ondine) in its pungent character and re-creative spark.
Segerstam's Seventh is well... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This fascinating new two-disc set…presents the bona fides of the Finnish pianist Paavali Jumppanen as a musician of keen intelligence and almost preternatural sensitivity…[he possesses] an infinitely... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

Jumppanen is prodigiously gifted, and he provides deeply felt accounts of the slow movements...but [his] departures from the script elsewhere won't be to everyone's taste. Jumppanen offers an... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Karen Vourc'h...is an eloquent advocate of the heigtened arioso, flexing into and out of speech...[in Terra Memoria] Marko Letonja controls Saariaho's single arc of quizzical and querulous transformations... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The intensity of Hakola's response to the music compels attention through every bar of the [central] movement...The Oulu Symphony Orchestra are on fine form throughout and Santtu-Matias Rouvali... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013 More…