Leif Segerstam
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Special offer. Sibelius: Lemminkainen Legends & Tapiola
RecommendedHelsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
The four Legends first began to surface in Sibelius's mind in 1893, at the same time as he was working on his Kalevala opera, The Building ofthe Boat, the prelude to which became The swanof... —
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Building a Library, January 2017, First Choice
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Rautavaara: Angels and Visitations
RecommendedElmar Oliveira (violin)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Rautavaara's wholly original Violin Concerto is hauntingly accessible and grips the listener completely...Segerstam provides a shimmering backing and directs a committed and persuasively spontaneous... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Sibelius - Orchestral Songs
RecommendedSoile Isokoski (soprano)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Soile Isokoski's voice has matured into a powerful instrument without losing its distinctively plangent expressiveness and intense way with words… Segerstam… provides spacious yet vividly dramatic... —
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Disc of the Year & Vocal Award Winner
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Special offer. Sibelius: Complete Symphonies
Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
The Polytech Male Choir & Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Provocative, big-hearted and occasionally just plain bonkers, Segerstam is at his flexible best in Nos 1 and 7, where raw emotion, recreative spark and edge-of-seat drama combine to often revelatory... —
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Allan Pettersson: Complete Edition Box
17 Discs and 4 DVDs plus Book
Jörgen Pettersson (saxophone), Ellen Nisbeth, Anders Larsson, Ulf Wallin (violin, soloist), Sueye Park, Daniel Vlashi Lukaçi, German Tcakulov, Alexander Wollheim, Thomas Hoppe, Martin Gelland, Cecilia Gelland, Thomas Bodin, Álvaro Pastor Jiménez, Linus Björnstam, Marianne Mellnäs, Margot Rodin, Sven-Erik...
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Special offer. Rautavaara: 90th Anniversary Edition
Marielle Nordmann (harp), Marko Ylönen (cello), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Gunilla Süssmann (piano), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Paavali Jumppanen (piano), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Latvian Radio Choir, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Finnish Radio Chamber Choir, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Belgium...
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Conductor Leif Segerstam captures the essence of this score effectively, conveying its colourful character, its wit and subtleties... this Prometheus is very well played and interpreted. Thus,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Sibelius: Swanwhite – Complete incidental Music
Orchestral Works, Vol. 5
Riho Eklundh (narrator)
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Svanevit (Swanwhite) is a Symbolist fairy tale, relatively sunlit and delicate…Segerstam conducts with the measured, grave pace and detail that characterises the rest of this series —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Everything that is included is substantial...the hugely impressive Symphonic Prologue to a Tragedy is dark, brooding and intricately wrought. It's invaluable to have these works available in... —
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$32.00
