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Finnish opera singer (1962–2024)
- soprano
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2017-11-01 19:11:00
Play it again, Sakari
[…] Mahler interpreter. But he 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 […]
2013-02-03 17:54:28
Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterJohn Storgards is a conductor who sometimes plays violin; Håkan Hardenberger is a trumpet player who occasionally conducts. They're both adept at passing the baton – in the first half, Hardenberger conducted Storgards in the UK premiere of Kimmo Hakola's Violin Concerto; after the break they swapped roles for another British first, Lucernaris, the trumpet concerto by the young Swedish composer Tobias Broström.Like his fellow Finn Sibelius, Hakola took up the violin at an early age and draws inspiration from the natural world – he describes the soloist as "like an eagle soaring over a beautiful landscape". His Concerto is a substantial work written in sumptuous, late Romantic language that Sibelius would recognise, but with a fearsome technical virtuosity he possibly wouldn't. The long first movement demanded such an unbroken frenzy of double-stops that Storgards spent the few bars of rest tearing broken hairs from his bow. But the […]
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