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Osmo Vänskä’s Nielsen cycle has been a mixed bag, compounded equally of inspiration and exaggeration, laxity and fussiness, all projected by a provincial ensemble that
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
Osmo Vänskä’s performances of Nielsen’s Third and Fourth Symphonies are as fine as those on his previous disc (of Nos. 1 and 6) were deficient.
A slightly mixed bag here. Osmo Vänskä and his players excel at presenting Sibelius’ gentler (and sometimes darker) side. This allows them to turn in
Osmo Vänskä is a fine conductor who always brings fresh ideas to the music he performs. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t. Here they
Most conductors who record Anton Bruckner’s Third symphony use the 1877 version edited by Leopold Nowak. Some, like Eliahu Inbal (Teldec), Roger Norrington (EMI), and
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.
I can’t be impartial about this recording. The very first piece of music I ever played as a percussionist in an amateur orchestra was Pizzetti’s
This collection, some of it new, some reissued, demonstrates yet again that there is no finer composer alive today than Finnish master Einojuhani Rautavaara. His
