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Norden
Songs by Jean Sibelius
Pia Freund (soprano), Tommi Hakala (baritone) & Kristian Attila (piano)
Freund and Tommi Hakala here find an attractively intimate, chamber route into these songs, short-changing on neither enjoyment nor pain…this new collection, with well-balanced natural recording... —
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Thomas Byström: Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Op. 1, Nos. 1-3
Tuija Hakkila (fortepiano), Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen (violin)
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Stylistically, each work sits on a liquid continuum from one pole to its apparently contradictory opposite. Balancing the surreal with the lyrical – of ten simultaneously – they offer a refreshing... —
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Earthly Angels
Music from 17th Century Nun Convents
Kajsa Dahlbäck (soprano), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Aira Maria Lehtipuu (violin), Anna Villberg (soprano), Earthly Angels
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Pehr Henrik Nordgren: A Finnish Elegy
Jari Valo (violin), Jukka Harju (horn), Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Juha Kangas
Nordgren’s distinctive modernism-meets-folk style is head here in the expert hands of the orchestra that knew him best. The string writing in the Horn Concerto is wonderfully eerie. —
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In Memoriam Pehr Henrik Nordgren
John Storgards (violin)
Rascher Saxophone Quartet, Lapland Chamber Orchestra
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Oramo and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra give us a finely disciplined Frank Bridge Variations of pungent character, fiery snap and arresting incident. It’s a performance whose nervy, questing... —
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