Orchestral, Saariaho (composer)
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…A magisterial performance, closely attentive to detail, in which the continental influences are highlighted as never before… The climax of 'Uranus' is a thriller: a massive build-up, with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Special offer. Saariaho: Quatre Instants, Terra Memoria & Émilie Suite
Karen Vourc’h (soprano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Marko Letonja
Karen Vourc'h...is an eloquent advocate of the heigtened arioso, flexing into and out of speech...[in Terra Memoria] Marko Letonja controls Saariaho's single arc of quizzical and querulous transformations... —
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Special offer. Kaija Saariaho: Chamber Works for Strings Vol. 2
Pia Freund (soprano), Marko Myohanen (electronics)
Meta4
This Finnish quartet Meta4 play with keyhole clarity and purpose —
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Saltarello
Garth Knox (fiddle, viola, viola d'amore), Agnès Vesterman (cello) & Sylvain Lemêtre (percussion)
Bringing all this music seamlessly together are the remarkable sonic possibilities offered by the combination of cello and viola or viola d'amore. A fiddle and electronics are added for good... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2012, Editor's Choice
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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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New. Queen Elisabeth Competition: Cello 2026
Ettore Pagano, Tae-Yeon Kim, Álvaro Lozano Cames, Leland Ko, Clara Dietlin, Antoine de Grolée, Maria Zaitseva, Maria Zaitseva Sr, Krzysztof Michalski, Sarah Zajtmann, Adria Ye, Lionel Martin, Dilshod Narzillaev, Andrew Ilhoon Byun, Ivan Sendetsky, Thomas Hoppe, Yo Kitamura, Belgian National Orchestra,...
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A sort of potted history of Finland’s choral music since 1917. From Sibelius’s Finlandia to Saarariaho’s extended vocal technique, the SWR vocal Ensemble excel. —
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Symmetriā Pario
Elinor Frey (cello), Russell Ward (electronics), Martin Chalifour (violin), Joanne Pearce Martin (piano), Mika Sasaki (piano), Bryan Pezzone (piano)
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Special offer. A Century of Finnish Chamber Music
live from the Kuhmo Festival
Jaakko Kuusisto (violin), Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello), Paavali Jumppanen (piano), John Storgårds (violin), Eduard Brunner (clarinet), Radek Barorák (French Horn), Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen (violin), Corinne Chapelle (violin), Pierre Lenert (viola), Tommi Aalto (viola), Götz Teutsch (cello), Martina Schucan...
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Musica Viva Festival 2008
Jörg Widmann (clarinet), Marisol Montalvo (soprano), Nicolas Hodges (piano), Matthias Bundschuh (speaker), Nimrod Guez (viola), Josh Martin (electronics, Stefan Schilli (oboe), Sebastian Klinger (cello), Philipp Stubenrauch (double bass), Frank Reinecke (double basses), Daniel Gloger (counter-tenor)
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