Helsinki Music Centre Choir
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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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Special offer. Rautavaara: Rubaiyat, Balada, Cantov & Four Songs from Rasputin
Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Mika Pohjonen (tenor)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Music Centre Choir, John Storgårds
John Storgårds and the Helsinki Philharmonic, in fine form, record a selection of [Rautavaara’s] recent, largely vocal works…well worth hearing —
