Dima Slobodeniouk
-
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 - Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Haochen Zhang (piano)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
Zhang possesses a clarity of finger and thought that are highly impressive. Passages that are often sounded with an all-purpose pyrotechnical pizzazz here possess a transparent sparkle, refreshingly... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
-
-
While their elder conjures in translucent textures the otherworldly darkness of Lemminkäinen’s sojourn in the Land of the Dead, Madetoja and Pylkkänen opt for galloping drama and pathos in depicting... —
Awards:
-
Record Review, 4th December 2021
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 10th December 2021
-
-
Sebastian Fagerlund: Isola
Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
a composer who can side with his great countryman Sibelius without the slightest need for self-protective irony. These are three strong, freshly poetic pieces, that make themselves understood... —
-
This is a sequence, delivered with absolute clarity and focus throughout by Slobodeniouk and the excellent Galicians, that makes sense of placing the earlier of the two symphonies proper first. —
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
-
-
The Lahti Symphony Orchestra under former principal music director Dima Slobodeniouk delivers a compelling performance [of the Britten] with some particularly stunning string playing in the... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, Orchestral Choice
-
-
Prokofiev: Suites from The Gambler & The Tale of the Stone Flower
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
[The Gambler Suite is] typical Prokofiev cut-and-paste, but there’s great lyric warmth in the way Dima Slobodeniouk and his Lahti players handle the opening these and the pathos of Babulenka,... —
-
Aho: Symphony No. 15
Eero Munter (double bass)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä, Jaako Kuusisto, Dima Slobodeniouk
I have only praise for the Lahti Symphony Orchestra displaying an unfailing instinct for Aho’s turbulent sound-world of absorbing textures and enticing rhythms. Each conductor seems impeccably... —
-
Salonen / Ravel
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
What Nicolas Altstaedt and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk draw from Esa-Pekka Salonen's multi-layered Cello Concerto is fascinating – an exciting expedition into... —
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Assorted Programs
-
-
Vagn Holmboe: Concertos
Lars Anders Tomter (viola), Erik Heide (violin)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
That this is one the finest viola concertos ever penned I have not the slightest doubt, and it is thrown off with dazzling virtuosity by Tomter and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
-
-
Kalevi Aho: Sieidi & Symphony No. 5
Colin Currie (percussion), Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk, Jaan Ots
Currie, for whom Sieidi was written, delivers a knockout account with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk...The Symphony, similarly intense and explosive, is a yet more ambitious... —
