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Kimmo Hakola’s Clarinet Concerto begins in a brassy freight train rhythms that remind of the music from the Matrix films. The clarinet leaps out of
This is generic modern music of the atonal melodic variety, more or less. The writing for both instruments is brilliant but completely insensitive to their
Magnus Lindberg’s Clarinet Concerto is just fabulous, perhaps the finest work he has written, and certainly one of the tiny handful of truly great pieces
Whatever his talents as a conductor (and they are considerable), this new release confirms Esa-Pekka Salonen’s true genius as a composer. With the Finnish Radio
This is an exhausting disc of difficult, challenging music, sensationally played and recorded. Magnus Lindberg is sort of the Chris Rouse of Finland: he writes
Only two of these “Sibelius Favorites” are among his well known works, and both receive fine performances. Mikko Franck leads an En Saga that, while
Finnish composer Bernhard Crusell (1775-1838) was clarinetist in Stockholm’s opera orchestra, a position he held for more than 40 years, during which time his chosen
It’s encouraging to note that at the end of the 20th century, the symphony (despite Leonard Bernstein’s proclamation of its demise) is still alive and
