Toivo Kuula: Songs and Orchestral Music
World Premiere Recordings (in these versions)
Susan Gritton (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Susan Gritton's performance is operatically charged, and very effective, as is her involving account of the 12-minute song-story Impi Ja Pajarin Poika...[Hiidet Virvoja Viritti] has a dash of... — More…
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Gramophone MagazineFebruary 2012Editor's Choice
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Kuula: Merenkylpijäneidot, Op.12: 'The Sea-bathing Nymphs'
- BBC Concert Orchestra
Kuula: South Ostrobothnian, Suite No.2, Op.20
- BBC Concert Orchestra
I. Tupolei 'The Arrival of the Wedding Violinists'
II. Metsässä Sataa ('It Rains in the Forest')
III. Minuee (Minuet)
IV. Orpolasten Polska ('Polka of the Orphaned Children')
V. Hiidet Virvoja Viritti ('Daemons Lighting up with Will-O'-the-Wisp')
Kuula: Four Songs with orchestra
- BBC Concert Orchestra
Kesäilta 'Summer Evening'
Tuijotin Tulehen Kauan Op. 2, No. 2: 'Long I Stared into the Fire'
Karjapihassa, Op.31a, No.2: 'In the Cattle Yard'
Purjein Kuutamolla, Op.31a, No.1: 'Sailing in the Moonlight'
Kuula: Concert Suite: Orjan Poika, Op.14b: 'Son of a Slave'
- BBC Concert Orchestra
Kuula: Impi Ja Pajarin Poika Op.18: 'The Maiden and the Son of a Boyar'
- BBC Concert Orchestra
Kuula: Prelude and Fugue Op.10
- BBC Concert Orchestra
I Preludio
II. Fugue