Lapland Chamber Orchestra
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The sounds Abrahamsen craves, white and translucent across a large range of actual expression, hugely complex on the page but delectably simple to the ear, are exceptionally realised and recorded... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Special offer. Outi Tarkiainen: The Earth, Spring's Daughter & Saivo
RecommendedVirpi Räisänen (mezzo-soprano), Jukka Perko (soprano saxophone), Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds
The Finn depicts her country’s landscape in this concerto, presenting the instrument in eerie new light. It’s paired with a haunting song cycle that utilises every force of the orchestra. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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This is big music that belies its scoring, swaying in an almost orchestral manner from highly mobile, directional states to more introspective ones. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th December 2025
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The grandeur Holmboe elicits from his small ensemble and basic thematic material is a lesson in compositional craft, the creation of a whole (considerably) greater than the sum of its parts...Excellent... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Kalevi Aho: Guitar Concerto; Quintet for Horn and String Quartet
Ismo Eskelinen; Ilkka Puputti; Lapland Chamber Orchestra; John Storgårds
Eskelinen seems entirely at one with the work, his touch nimble and clean; clearly a fine player. The Lapland Chamber Orchestra accompany sensitively… It is splendidly played, and BIS’s sound... —
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Kalevi Aho: Horn Concerto & Theremin Concerto
Annu Salminen (horn), Carolina Eyck (theremin)
Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds
Virtuosity in the service of imagination is the abiding impression of all Aho's concertos, and the quality of soloists, orchestra, conductor and recording here is fully up to that of the music... —
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In Memoriam Pehr Henrik Nordgren
John Storgards (violin)
Rascher Saxophone Quartet, Lapland Chamber Orchestra
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Sørensen: Mignon
Katrine Gislinge (piano), John Storgårds (conductor/violin)
Lapland Chamber Orchestra
There is an almost unbearable, icy tenderness to [Mignon] (the excellent sleeve notes aptly describe Sorensen’s harmonies as ‘like smoke: forming suddenly only to disintegrate’) and the intricate... —
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Special offer. Zemlinsky: Seven Songs & Chamber Symphony
arr. by Richard Dünser
Jenny Carlstedt (mezzo-soprano)
Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds
Richard Dünser has orchestrated seven [Zemlinsky miniatures] to form a very convincing song cycle exploring the themes of night and dreams. Mezzo-soprano Jenny Carlstedt delivers Zemlinsky's... —
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Nordgren: Spellbound Tones
Works for Guitar
Petri Kumela (guitar), Tero Toivonen (horn), Tomas Djupsjobacka (cello)
Tempera Quartet, Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgards
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