Holst: The Planets; Raitio: Moonlight on Jupiter
Helsinki Chamber Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
it's Raitio's tone poem that transfixes eerie, impressionistic and delivered with unwavering intensity.
Holst: The Planets; Raitio: Moonlight on Jupiter
Helsinki Chamber Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
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it's Raitio's tone poem that transfixes eerie, impressionistic and delivered with unwavering intensity.
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This album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Collon joins together two impressive cosmic visions: Gustav Holst’s iconic orchestral masterpiece The Planets together with a gem from Finnish orchestral literature, Väinö Raitio’s (1891–1945) Moonlight on Jupiter. Raitio’s work from the 1920s is recorded for the first time in 50 years and receives its first CD recording.
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October 2026
it's Raitio's tone poem that transfixes eerie, impressionistic and delivered with unwavering intensity.
July 2026
...memorably poised horn-playing and gorgeously liquid woodwind and harp textures... Collon and his Helsinki colleagues do the composer’s weird and wonderful inspiration absolutely proud.
