Ondine
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Special offer. Rautavaara: Aleksis Kivi
Jorma Hynninen, Lasse Pöysti, Eeva-Liisa Saarinen, Helena Juntunen, Gabriel Suovanen, Marcus Groth, Lassi Virtanen, Jaakko Hietikko
Jyväskylä Sinfonia, Markus Lehtinen
Idyll turned to nightmare, optimism to disillusionment, creative fruitfulness to barren schizophrenia and premature death. The tragic fate of the founder of Finnish-language literature has haunted... —
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Special offer. Soile Isokoski sings Chausson, Berlioz & Duparc
Soile Isokoski (soprano)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
[The Berlioz] repays a lieder-style sense of detail in both word and expression. This Isokoski certainly has, and it's the more successful performance of the two…Storgårds conducts with unusually... —
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Special offer. Schumann: Adventlied & Ballade vom Pagen und der Königstochter & JS Bach: Cantata BWV 105
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra & Estonian Philharmonic Chamber, Aapo Hakkinen
Häkkinen clearly thinks this music needs a fresh approach. His superb liner note shows that his score, instruments and orchestral placement are as historically informed as possible. More importantly,... —
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Special offer. American Opus (Americascapes 2)
Walker - Crumb - Revueltas
Basque National Orchestra, Robert Trevino
Treviño and the Basque National Orchestra’s emphasis on atmosphere rather than scare tactics is the most persuasive [recording of the Crumb] yet. —
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Special offer. Uuno Klami & Einar Englund: Violin Concertos
Benjamin Schmid (violin)
Oulu Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Gustavsson
Not a lost masterpiece but a sturdy work with individual touches. —
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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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The Latvian Radio Choir provide a polished account, catching the idiom nicely, although there are moments of discomfort in the Sanctus's solo passages...The most immediately appealing pieces... —
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a rich bass section helps anchor the Russian music, grounding it not only harmonically but also stylistically in the Russian Orthodox choral tradition...There's nothing naive or folk-innocent... —
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Special offer. Tālivaldis Ķeniņš: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8; Aria
Iveta Apkalna (organ), Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Andris Poga
these works enshrine the Ķeniņš watchwords of clarity, severity and discipline, while his exceptional contrapuntal abilities are even more in evidence. —
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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 —
