Opera, Sallinen (composer)
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Special offer. Sallinen: The King Goes Forth to France
Tommi Hakala, Jyrki Korhonen, Riikka Rantanen, Lilli Paasikivi, Mari Palo, Laura Nykänen, Jyrki Anttila, Herman Wallén & Santeri Kinnunen
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Philharmonic Chorus, Tapiola Chamber Choir, Okko Kamu
A dark yet wickedly funny opera from 1984 with roots somehow simultaneously in the Hundred Years War, the future, and our own environmentally challenged present, with the spectre of an idealistic... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2006, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2006, 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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Special offer. Sallinen: Kullervo - Opera in Two Acts
Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Eeva-Liisa Saarinen (mezzo soprano), Matti Salminen (bass), Jorma Silvasti (tenor)
Finnish National Opera Orchestra, Finnish National Opera Chorus, Ulf Söderblom
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Special offer. Sallinen: Kullervo - Opera in Two Acts
Jorma Hynninen (baritone), Eeva-Liisa Saarinen (mezzo soprano), Matti Salminen (bass), Jorma Silvasti (tenor)
Finnish National Opera Orchestra, Finnish National Opera Chorus, Ulf Söderblom
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Special offer. Sallinen: King Lear, Op. 76
Matti Salminen (King Lear), Lilli Paasikivi (Cordelia), Taina Piira (Goneril), Satu Vihavainen (Regan), Petri Lindroos (Albany), Jorma Hynninen (Gloucester), Kai Pitkanen (Cornwall), Aki Alamikkotervo (The Fool), Sauli Tiilikainen (Edgar), Jorma Silvasti (Edmund) & Hannu Forsberg (France)
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Sallinen's timing of the action seems to click into a higher gear forom the end of Act 1 Scene 2 where bastard Edmund 'deposes' Edgar from the Gloucester family inheritance. There is some classy... —
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Special offer. Sallinen: The Red Line (Punainen Viiva), Op. 46
Jorma Hynninen (Topi) & Päivi Nisula (Riika)
Finnish National Opera Orchestra, Finnish National Opera Chorus & Tsuumi Dance Company, Mikko Franck (conductor) & Pekka Milonoff (stage director)
With musical intelligence and dramatic insight he projects a convincing mix of fortitude, desperation and helplessness...[Nisula's] edgy dramatic soprano is combined with first-rate acting skills...Franck... —
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Sallinen: The Palace
From the Savonlinna Opera Festival 1995
Veijo Varpio, Jaana Mäntynen, Sauli Tiilikainen, Jorma Silvasti, Tom Krause & Ritva-Liisa Korhonen
Chorus and Orchestra of the Savonlinna Opera Festival, Okko Kamu, Stage Direction by Kalle Holmberg & stage design by Juha-Pekka Kiljunen
