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Special offer. Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5
Olli Mustonen (piano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
The performance does include a spectacular Toccata at its centre, and the Larghetto has grandiosity. —
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The American cellist brings much to the works here but the most admirable quality of all is an extreme clarity that suits the music. —
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Special offer. Perttu Haapanen: Flute Concerto, Ladies' Room & Compulsion Island
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Flute Concerto (2018) is the most successful of these pieces...Principal flautist of the FRSO, Yuki Koyama is wholly attuned to a piece written for him, with Dima Slobodeniouk assured in... —
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Special offer. Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony
Angela Hewitt (piano) & Valérie Hartmann-Claverie (ondes Martenot)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Lintu's awareness of internal balance is masterly. The machine-like tutti that follows the first-movement piano cadenza marches relentlessly forwards, strings crooning high above the extreme... —
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The playing is unaffected and moving [in] the Moments Musicaux —
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Coming soon. Kaija Saariaho: Saarikoski Songs, Vista, Three Preludes
Anu Komsi (soprano), Marzi Nyman, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
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Special offer. Magnus Lindberg: Tempus Fugit
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Under Hannu Lintu, the Finish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays with such clarity and insight that is feels like a beautifully balanced clockwork mechanism – albeit one with a mightily exuberant... —
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Special offer. Saariaho - Notes On Light, Orion & Mirage
Karita Mattila (soprano) & Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Orchestre de Paris Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach
Saariaho has always had an extraordinary ear for a beauty of sound, best described in terms of light. …performances have that extra edge which live recording brings. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Kaipainen: Symphony No. 3 & Bassoon Concerto
Otto Virtanen (bassoon)
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Jouni Kaipainen's first two symphonies were in one and two movements respectively but Kaipainen suggests no conclusions should be drawn from the fact that the Third (2004) is in three.
The latest... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2007, Editor's Choice
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Ashkenazy stresses the lyricism as well as the anguish of Suk's score; this is a performance of great dignity and nobility, with fine attention to detail, especially in the often complex woodwind... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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