Kalevi Aho: Sieidi & Symphony No. 5

Currie, for whom Sieidi was written, delivers a knockout account with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk...The Symphony, similarly intense and explosive, is a yet more ambitious... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 2nd Oct 2020
Catalogue No: BIS2336
Label: BIS
Length: 60 minutes

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Aho: Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra "Sieidi"

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Colin Currie (percussion)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk

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Aho: Symphony No. 5

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Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Jaan Ots, Dima Slobodeniouk

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With 17 symphonies and 32 concertos to date, Kalevi Aho is one of today’s most prolific composers of large-scale orchestral scores. The present disc brings together two works separated by 35 years, but also by the reception they have enjoyed: whereas Sieidi, the percussion concerto Aho composed in 2010, has become one of his most performed works, Symphony No. 5 from the mid-70s is a rarely heard score. Sieidi was written for Colin Currie, who has recorded it here and who performs the concerto with orchestras across the world. Its title, a word in Sami, is used in reference to the rituals and shamanism of indigenous peoples around the world, and the solo part, which makes use of nine different percussion instruments, begins and ends with the djembe and darabuka, drums usually heard in African and Arab music. The instruments are placed in a row towards the front of the stage, and during the course of the work the soloist makes his way across the platform, from the right to the left and back, reinforcing the ritualistic dimension of the piece. Currie is supported by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra under its principal conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, a team with a deep familiarity with Aho’s music.

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Christmas 2020

Currie, for whom Sieidi was written, delivers a knockout account with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk...The Symphony, similarly intense and explosive, is a yet more ambitious work in which the polyphony becomes so complex that two conductors are required...Jaan Ots joins a well-honed team for a nuanced yet overwhelming rendition, linear pathways always clear despite the welter of sound.

May/June 2021

These two exciting works, well worthy of repeated listening, are performed with skill and power. The sound quality is tremendous, at times literally so. Highly recommended.

November 2020

I have heard no more impactful or well-argued work from Kalevi Aho’s pen than his Symphony No 5...It gets a deep, highly involved performance from the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in which Slobodeniouk marshals all its contradictory intensities towards the final moment of release with skill.

November 2020

Essential for Aho fans, and attractive for those who welcome the excitement of two approachable and comprehensible pieces of modern music.

Kalevi Aho: Sieidi & Symphony No. 5

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