Osmo Vänskä, Lahti Symphony Orchestra - Kalevi Aho: Chinese Songs, Symphony No. 4 (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 228 Mb | Total time: 63:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1066 | Recorded: 1999
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 228 Mb | Total time: 63:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1066 | Recorded: 1999
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. The first movement’s fugal exposition reveals a continuation of that concern with musical shape and form already quite evident in Aho’s previous symphonies. His skillful use of counterpoint to convey an impression of sadness or dread echoes that great master of creepy fugue writing, Bartók. The second movement unleashes a violent whirlwind of sound very much in the spirit of Mahler’s or Shostakovich’s more nihilistic moments, and its instrumental virtuosity very much anticipates the composer’s most recent, concertante-style symphonic writing.