SACD, Rautavaara (composer)
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Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Rautavaara's First Symphony, written in 1955 in four movements, was recast in 1988 – not wholly convincingly – as a diptych. In 2003 Rautavaara added a new slow movement based on a song composed... —
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Rautavaara & Martinů: Piano Concertos No. 3
RecommendedOlli Mustonen (piano), Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska
BIS is to be commended for producing an imaginatively programmed disc and giving the music brilliant performances and superb recorded sound. To round out the picture, Jean-Pascal Vachon’s program... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th December 2023
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It’s hard to imagine a more unlikely orchestral pairing. It works mightily well, however, with the Gothenburg Symphony hugely atmospheric in Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus then warmly, playfully... —
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The quality is captured by the Helsinki Chamber Choir and soloists, who have to negotiate difficult glissandi, microtonal passages and whispers, and also by a superb recording made at Järvenpää,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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Khachaturian & Rautavaara: Flute Concertos
Sharon Bezaly (flute)
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Diemecke, Dima Slobodeniouk
Bezaly makes a wonderful case for it on this new disc, throwing herself into the exuberant Armenian rhythms with abandon…[she] is lively in the piccolo-led second movement, with its hints of... —
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The tone of Nils Schweckendiek’s Helsinki Chamber Choir can curdle towards the top, although its strong bones reveal its origins as Finland’s professional radio choir. —
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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[An] absorbing, classily sung anthology of Finnish Christmas music. —
