Stefan Asbury, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Kalevi Aho: Chamber Symphonies Nos 1-3 (2012)
Stefan Asbury, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Kalevi Aho: Chamber Symphonies Nos 1-3 (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 56:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-1126 SACD | Recorded: 2011
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 56:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-1126 SACD | Recorded: 2011
The focus of Kalevi Aho’s output lies on large-scale orchestral works, and his work-list includes fifteen symphonies to date, composed between 1969 and 2010. Although the Finnish composer is famously lavish as an orchestrator, and often invites rare guests such as the heckelphone into his orchestra, the scores of Aho’s three chamber symphonies are much more economic in scale. But although composed for some twenty strings in all, and of more modest durations than for instance the 50-minute Eighth Symphony for organ and orchestra, they bear eloquent proof of the composer’s aim of exploiting to the full the expressive capabilities of a string orchestra. Consequently these works are highly demanding for the players; not because virtuosity has been an end in itself, but for reasons of maximum expressivity. For Chamber Symphony No.3, the composer decided to include a solo part for alto saxophone, written for John-Edward Kelly who also performs it here. In his liner notes, Aho describes the piece as ‘a hybrid of chamber symphony and saxophone concerto’ and relates how he was inspired by Arabic music, and more particularly by a certain ‘unique melodic heterophony’ resulting from different musicians playing the same melodic pattern, but each of them with slight differences. Performing these scores are the eminent strings of the Tapiola Sinfonietta, an ensemble which has earned high praise from reviewers around the world for its recordings, ranging from Arvo Pärt to Saint-Saëns and C.M. von Weber. The conductors Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Stefan Asbury are both close collaborators of the orchestra, and the presence of the composer during the recordings vouches for the authenticity of these performances.
Performer:
John-Edward Kelly, alto saxophone
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Stefan Asbury, conductor (1-4)
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor (5-8)
Tracklist:
Kalevi Aho (b.1949)
Chamber Symphony No.1 (1976)
01. Andante – Prestissimo – Poco meno mosso – Presto – Tempo I – Presto – Andante – Tempo di Valse – Tempo I – Allegro –Tempo I – Poco meno mosso
Chamber Symphony No.2 (1991–92)
02. [no tempo marking]
03. [Letter F]
04. Furioso
Chamber Symphony No.3 (1995–96)
05. I. …jäätyivät umpeen levottomat vedet (…frozen are the restless waters)
06. II. …ah, olen kuullut villihanhien huudot (…oh, I have heard the wild geese calling)
07. III. …pitkät yöt sulavat (…the long nights are melting)
08. IV. …soutaa avomerta päin tulipunainen laiva (…towards the open sea rows a fire-red boat)
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Stefan Asbury, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Kalevi Aho: Chamber Symphonies Nos 1-3 (2012)
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