Lahti Symphony Orchestra & Dalia Stasevska - Helvi Leiviskä: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (2023)
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WEB FLAC (tracks) - 270 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 148 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:02:37
Classical | Label: BIS
Conductor Dalia Stasevka who received the BBC Music Magazine’s ‘Personality of the Year’ Award in 2023 and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra present three works by the Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä, who was Finland’s first major female composer. Initially inspired by the language of late Romanticism – she mentioned Brahms as her favourite composer – Leiviskä developed an original, modern style that eschewed all schools, convinced that it was more important to tread one’s own path than to follow fashionable styles. While her output may seem small in terms of quantity, it more than makes up for it in the quality of the works, especially her symphonies, a genre she considered ‘the highest manifestation of music’.