Armas Launis News
Finnish composer
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Armas Launis)
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- composer, journalist, musicologist, ethnomusicologist, writer
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Play it again, Sakari
[…] is also not afraid to deviate from the algorithmically defined straight and narrow. These deviations brought an invaluable overview of John Foulds' music while at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and a memorable William Alwyn First Symphony at the Proms in his first season as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Moreover during his tenure at the Finnish Radio Symphony Oramo programmed music from, among others, Kaija Saariaho, Kimmo Hakola, Jouni Kaipainen, Armas Launis and Ernest Pingoud. In 2013 Sakari Oramo recorded the First and Eighth Symphonies of Per Nørgård (b. 1932) with the Vienna Philharmonic no less. Per Nørgård was influenced by Sibelius - the First Symphony briefly quotes from Tapiola - and came into contact with the great man during the Finnish composer's last years. But the much clearer influence is the more abrasive music of Per Nørgård's teacher and fellow Dane Vagn Holmboe (1906-1996). […]
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