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If you enjoy big, hairy, colorful, exuberant, generously overscored, quasi-tonal modern symphonies, than you’ll love this ebullient example from Jouni Kaipainen. Written in three big
Without question Peteris Vasks is one of the major composers active today. His Third Symphony does everything that a fine new work in the form
Aulis Sallinen’s The King Goes Forth to France had its premiere in London and Savonlinna, Finland in 1984 (it was a joint commission from the
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s rich tradition of Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 recordings continues in this handsome new release from Ondine. The SACD sonics are so clear
Perhaps the best way for new-music neophytes to approach Julian Anderson’s music is to pretend that the first piece they ever heard was Stravinsky’s Rite
Leif Segerstam recorded a strangely mannered, soft-edged Sibelius cycle for Chandos a few years ago with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, but his superb
Everyone agrees that the Six Humoresques are miniature masterpieces, but they are still very seldom played, and just as seldom recorded. Along with the two
What do we look for in a great Alpine Symphony? Certainly there’s little depth or insight that a conductor can bring to the music, nor
When playing Rameau, Tzimon Barto pares the keyboard writing’s decorative surface down to its melodic essence, downplays its dance roots, and basically uses the text
Matti Raekallio’s Prokofiev sonata cycle was among the very first Ondine productions to reach these shores, and it immediately established the label (and the pianist)
