Fagerlund

I found the works on this disc an exciting discovery, and the performances are sui generis: Storgårds, Bezaly, and the musicians of the Tapiola Sinfonietta are all in top form. Sound quality... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2024 More…

Altstaedt gives a bravura performance [of Nomade] that captures every colour and nuance of the work, from the plaintive to the soaring to the percussive, while Hannu Lintu’s attentive reading... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Finn’s natural outlet for his tautly robust, driving energy has been in opera and orchestral works. Yet his chamber music is no less compelling…By turns ferociously rhythmic, playful and... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

a composer who can side with his great countryman Sibelius without the slightest need for self-protective irony. These are three strong, freshly poetic pieces, that make themselves understood... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Violin Concerto Darkness in Light (2012) was composed for and dedicated to Pekka Kuusisto, who gives a dazzlingly virtuoso account of it here…[Ignite (2010)] is an invigorating and virtuosically... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2015 More…

Kromos is Sebastian Fagerlund’s way of exploring his own and the guitar’s capabilities...t’s also a wonderful way for the versatile Finnish guitarist Ismo Eskelinen to open this recital of 21st-century... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…