Ondine
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Hvorostovsky's baritone, still one of the great voices, can combine dark timbre with an emotional warmth to offset the granitic style; while pianist Ivari Ilja, although unable to mimic apocalyptic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Solo Vocal
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Sallinen: The King Goes Forth to France
Tommi Hakala, Jyrki Korhonen, Riikka Rantanen, Lilli Paasikivi, Mari Palo, Laura Nykänen, Jyrki Anttila, Herman Wallén & Santeri Kinnunen
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Philharmonic Chorus, Tapiola Chamber Choir, Okko Kamu
A dark yet wickedly funny opera from 1984 with roots somehow simultaneously in the Hundred Years War, the future, and our own environmentally challenged present, with the spectre of an idealistic... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2006, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2006, Editor's Choice
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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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Three key works, each from an essential point in Witold Lutosławski’s career, add up to a thrilling portrait of the modern Polish master. All are played with searing energy by the Finnish Radio... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Orchestral
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a powerful account of Biber's masterpiece, bringing nobility, exuberance, severity and a strong contemplative dimension as and when the music requires. There is also a lively depictive element... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Martinu: Memorial to Lidice & Klein: Partita
Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Eschenbach opens with Martinů's Memorial to Lidice… this performance serves to intensify an overriding feeling of despair, the Philadelphians responding with a chilling incisiveness particularly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom & Nine Sacred Choruses
Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Kļava
Klava achieves precise chording and proves sensitive to pacing, with the music’s flow carefully measured. Intonation is close to ideal. In the apt acoustic of St John’s Church, Riga, there’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Choral
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Rautavaara - The 8 Symphonies
Digital recordings, previously released
NO of Belgium, Leipzig RSO, Helsinki PO, Mikko Franck, Max Pommer, Leif Segerstam
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Magnus Lindberg: Tempus Fugit
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Under Hannu Lintu, the Finish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays with such clarity and insight that is feels like a beautifully balanced clockwork mechanism – albeit one with a mightily exuberant... — More…
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Don’t go expecting a spare, Nordic soundworld, as his craft was honed mainly in Paris; do enjoy orchestral colour aplenty and a splendidly uplifting end to the Symphony in D minor. — More…
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