Aho: Symphony No. 12 ‘Luosto Symphony’

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Like Vaughan Williams's Seventh, Aho's Twelfth is a work of immediate effect yet needs time to make its full impact. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2008

Release Date: 30th Jun 2008
Catalogue No: BISSACD1676
Label: BIS
Length: 48 minutes

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Aho: Symphony No. 12 ‘Luosto Symphony’

Work length48:55

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Taina Piira, Aki Alamikkotervo, Hannu Lehtonen
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Lapland
John Storgårds
Recorded: March 2007
Recording Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland

I. Samaanit (the Shamans)

Track length13:23

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II. Kaamos ja keskikesa (Winter Darkness and Midsummer)

Track length14:12

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III. Laulu tunturissa (Song in the Fells)

Track length9:44

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IV. Myrsky tunturissa (Storm in the Fells)

Track length11:36

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BIS releases the first recording on CD of Kalevi Aho’s Symphony No.12 - ‘Luosto’. It was written for a performance on the slopes of Mount Luosto in Finnish Lapland. It makes use of two orchestras, two vocal soloists and a number of brass players and percussionists placed at various distances from each other and the conductor, surrounding the audience. The primary inspiration for this four-movement work came from the natural surroundings and traditions of Lapland, and parts of it were composed during a bitterly cold spell in the solitude of a cottage at the foot of Orresokka, the mountain next to Luosto. The three-dimensional qualities written into the score makes it the perfect subject for a Surround Sound recording and during the recording sessions in the acclaimed acoustics of the Lahti Sibelius Hall, great pains were taken to recreate the set-up of the first performance. This took place in 2003, in front of – or rather around – an audience of over 2000 people, and became the starting point of ‘LuostoClassic’, an annual summer music festival which in 2008 features another performance of Aho’s symphony.

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October 2008

Like Vaughan Williams's Seventh, Aho's Twelfth is a work of immediate effect yet needs time to make its full impact.

Aho: Symphony No. 12 ‘Luosto Symphony’

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