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Special offer. Harry Ahmas: Organ Music

Jan Lehtola (organ), Petri Komulainen (horn)

A welcome introduction to the Finnish composer whose organ music echoes Petr Eben’s angular tonalism. The organ’s clean, immediate sound adds brilliant clarity. The sonata deserves wide currency.

Special offer. Harry Ahmas: Organ Music

Jan Lehtola (organ), Petri Komulainen (horn)

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A welcome introduction to the Finnish composer whose organ music echoes Petr Eben’s angular tonalism. The organ’s clean, immediate sound adds brilliant clarity. The sonata deserves wide currency.

About

As Principal Bassoon in the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Harri Ahmas (b. 1957) is one of Finland’s most highly regarded orchestral musicians. But he is also the composer of a substantial body of music, including four symphonies, eight concertos, much chamber music and a generous number of works for wind band. Some grandiose and powerful music for organ is threaded through his composing career, too, much of it composed for the musician who plays it here, Jan Lehtola. Coincidentally, Dr Lehtola, Finland’s leading concert organist, is a native of Lahti, the industrial town inland from Helsinki brought to international prominence by the Sibelius recordings it made under its former chief conductor Osmo Vänskä – who is a Patron of Toccata Classics.

Contents and tracklist

4 Bagatelles: No. 1, Veloce
Track length5:22
4 Bagatelles: No. 2, Semplice
Track length6:58
4 Bagatelles: No. 3, Capriccio
Track length3:16
4 Bagatelles: No. 4, Giocoso
Track length5:40
Chorale e fughetta: I. Chorale
Track length3:21
Chorale e fughetta: II. Fughetta
Track length2:03
Organ Sonata: I. Moderato
Track length7:41
Organ Sonata: II. Quasi passacaglia
Track length6:29
Organ Sonata: III. Lento
Track length9:52

Awards and reviews

December 2019

A welcome introduction to the Finnish composer whose organ music echoes Petr Eben’s angular tonalism. The organ’s clean, immediate sound adds brilliant clarity. The sonata deserves wide currency.

January/February 2021

Ahmas’s music is exciting and engaging – the opening Veloce (one of Four bagatelles for horn and organ) has all the fantastical energy and sonority reminiscent of Jean Guillou

January/February 2020

While this is not a disc for the general organ listener, it will certainly be of interest to anybody interested in contemporary Finnish music or contemporary organ music of this stylistic character. Lehtola’s total commitment and understanding of this repertoire is never in doubt.
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