Helsinki Chamber Choir
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[In the title-work] Saariaho embraces the often-referenced otherworldly aspects of her palette by setting text about Martians, desert people and universality – think sci-fi madrigal rather than... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Choral Performance
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Contemporary Music
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Shortlisted - Choral
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New. Holst: The Planets; Raitio: Moonlight on Jupiter
Helsinki Chamber Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
...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. —
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Special offer. Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
John Findon (Gerontius), Christine Rice (Angel), Roderick Williams (Priest/Angel of the Agony)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, various choirs, Nicholas Collon
At times [Collon] inculcates an operatic immediacy, and seldom have the orchestral textures sounded so Wagnerian – as if Elgar had recently been leaf ing through the pages of Parsifal. Indeed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Choral
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I Am a River
Nils Schweckendiek, Joel Ward, Jukka Jokitalo, Veera Kuusirati, Elmeri Uusikorpi, Heikki Parviainen, Linnéa Sundfær Casserly, Helsinki Chamber Choir
As with Reconnaissance, the Helsinki Chamber Choir and Nils Schweckendiek's stunning disc of Saariaho's music released shortly after her death in 2023, this is compelling listening. —
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Special offer. Lindberg - Graffiti & Seht die Sonne
World Prèmiere Recordings
Helsinki Chamber Choir & Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
...the truly individual moments are the most affecting - particularly the ethereal conclusion. In both works the orchestra under Sakari Oramo is a treasure trove of colour. —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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The quality is captured by the Helsinki Chamber Choir and soloists, who have to negotiate difficult glissandi, microtonal passages and whispers, and also by a superb recording made at Järvenpää,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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Helsinki Chamber Choir certainly have the measure of the piece in their new recording. Conductor Nils Schweckendiek is unafraid to allow space around the music, with some daringly long pauses... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Reports
choral works by Perttu Haapanen
Petri Kumela (guitar), Heikki Parviainen (percussion)
Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek
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Under the Arching Heavens
A Requiem by Alex Freeman
Mirjam Solomon (soprano), Júlia Heéger (soprano), Emma Suszko (alto), Varvara Merras-Häyrynen (alto), Jukka Jokitalo (tenor), Martti Anttila (tenor), Juha-Pekka Mitjonen (bass), Sirkku Rintamäki (alto), David Hackston (tenor), Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek
Despite music that is almost unvaryingly slow, Freeman draws the listener into his world through the urgent intensity of his vision. His harmonic language is largely though not exclusively tonal,... —
