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Is there anything in music more irritating than an atonal alto saxophone cadenza, such as we find in Aho’s Third Chamber Symphony (for saxophone and
This is a remarkable project. Kalevi Aho is a prolific and imaginative composer, and the three works here were composed for these forces to comprise
Kalevi Aho really is a good composer–you can tell right from the beginning of his Second Piano Concerto. Scored only for keyboard and strings, the
Kalevi Aho loves a challenge, though at times (as in his recent disc of concertos for contrabassoon and tuba) the effort can seem more an
This is a fantastic disc. I had the pleasure of attending the premiere of Kalevi Aho’s Symphony No. 11 (for orchestra and six percussionists) at
Flute concertos constitute one of the few media in which it’s generally more interesting to listen to contemporary music than to the works of past
It’s been a very good couple of years for the clarinet repertoire, what with magnificent new concertos written by Lindberg, Rautavaara, and now this one
Kalevi Aho’s Third Symphony foreshadows his later works that make ingenious use of various instruments in concertante form. While several of these quasi-concertos already have
Finnish composer Kalevi Aho’s Fourth Symphony (1972) contains, in its three movements, elements both typical of his early work and prophetic of things to come.
