Special offer. Berio: Sinfonia & Calmo
Virpi Räisänen (mezzo-soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
Any singer must exorcise the ghost of Cathy Berberian in this and other vocal works of Berio and...Virpi Räisänen has the measure of it...In Hannu Lintu's marvellous new recording I hear and...
Special offer. Berio: Sinfonia & Calmo
Virpi Räisänen (mezzo-soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Purchase product
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
Any singer must exorcise the ghost of Cathy Berberian in this and other vocal works of Berio and...Virpi Räisänen has the measure of it...In Hannu Lintu's marvellous new recording I hear and...
About
Ondine continues its exciting releases focusing on 20th century masterpieces together with conductor Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. This release is dedicated to the orchestral works by the pioneer of Italian modernism Luciano Berio.
Berio’s 5-movement Sinfonia, is undoubtedly his most well-known work, written for the New York Philharmonic and dedicated to Leonard Bernstein. It has become one of the key works and principle musical manifestations of the 1960s bringing together collage technique and modernism.
Contents and tracklist
- Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Hannu Lintu
- Recorded: January 2014
- Recording Venue: Helsinki Music Centre
- Virpi Räisänen
- Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Hannu Lintu
- Recorded: January 2014
- Recording Venue: Helsinki Music Centre
- Mirjam Solomon, Annika Fuhrmann, Jutta Seppinen, Pasi Hyokki, Simo Mäkinen, Paavo Hyökki, Taavi Oramo, Sampo Haapaniemi
- Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Hannu Lintu
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJanuary 2015Editor's Choice
January 2015
Any singer must exorcise the ghost of Cathy Berberian in this and other vocal works of Berio and...Virpi Räisänen has the measure of it...In Hannu Lintu's marvellous new recording I hear and admire a rediscovery of the impatience and invention that drove Berio to write it, in the forward, piano-led instrumental balance and the unapologetic grandeur of the finale's climax.
4th December 2014
The Ondine recording is also something of an exercise in hyper-reality, but the 5.0 surround experience is truly remarkable, and at times genuinely overwhelming. The performance is tremendously idiomatic and convincing. This production is an all-round winner from beginning to end.
