Raitio
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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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Hedlund plays with sweetness and passion, though occasionally seems a little careful in the technically challenging passages —
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Pictures from Finland
Oulu Sinfonia, Madetoja Music High School's Girls' Choir, The Soma Ensemble, Rumon Gamba
The playing of the Oulu Sinfonia offers quality in every department, with Rumon Gamba's conducting ensuring exemplary attention to detail; the precise shading of string tone in Kajanus's Adagietto... —
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Special offer. Vaino Raitio: Queen of the Flowers
Works for small orchestra
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Tuomas Ollila
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Sibelius dominates the international reputation of Finnish music, but as this disc shows there’s plenty more. —
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Special offer. Land of the Midnight Sun - Music and Images from Finland
Soile Isokoski (soprano), Marita Viitasalo (piano), Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Olli Mustonen (piano), Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Elina Laakkonen (soprano), Helena Juntunen (soprano), Gustav Djupsjobacka (piano)
Virtuosi di Kuhmo, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra,...
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Special offer. RAITIO, V.: Fantasia poetica / Fantasia estatica / The Swans / The Column Fountain / Antigone (Finnish Radio Symphony, Saraste)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
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Special offer. Suomi: Finland 100
A Century of Finnish Classics
Soile Isokoski, Jorma Hynninen & Matti Salminen
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Tapiola Sinfonietta & Jyvaskyla Sinfonia, Leif Segerstam, Sakari Oramo, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Hannu Lintu & John Storgards
Rautavaara's Summer Thoughts is part of a whole disc reflecting the composer's rather romantic nature-loving works for piano and violin. It's awash in memories from which images are constantly... —
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