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Aulis Sallinen: Six Operas and One Chronicle - Okko Kamu & Ulf Soderblom
Aulis Sallinen - The Horseman 'Ratsumies'. Opera in 3 acts (1975) 1.01. - 1.08. Act I. Easter in Novgorod [41'50]1.09. - 1,13 / 2.01. - 2.03. Act II, Law court in Olavinlinna [41'41]2.04. - 2.11. Act III, The Attack [43'05]Antti. The Horseman 'Ratsumies' - Matti Salminen- bass-baritone;Anna. His wife - Taru Valjakka- soprano;Merchant of Novgorod - Eero Erkkila- tenor;Merchant's Wife - Anita Valkki- alto;Judge - Martti Wallen- bass; Woman - Tuula Nieminen- mezzo;Yeoman - Usko Viitanen- baritone; Matti Puikkanan - Heikki Toivanen- bass;Savonlinna Opera Festival Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Ulf Soderblom Finlandia FACD101 [recorded by Finnish Broadcasting Company at the world premiere given in Savonlinna, Finland on 17 July 1975][CD-rip; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans] The Horseman was premiered at the Savonlinna Opera Festival on 17 June 1975 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Olavinlinna castle and is the first of Sallinen's operas. Its libretto is by […]
2020-05-07 23:00:00
Karita Mattila: Orchestral Songs by Hindemith, Sallinen & Merikanto
01. - 06. Paul Hindemith - Das Marienleben 'The Life of Mary', op.27 [21'53]07. - 10. Aulis Sallinen - Nelja laulua unesta 'Four Dream Songs' [14'17]11. Aarre Merikanto - Genesis* [18'42]Karita Mattila- soprano; Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir*; Lahti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ulf SoderblomFinlandia FACD359 (recorded 1987 & 1988; this CD release 1988, digital download 2011)(digital download; flacs, cover and back scans - no booklet)Recording venue: Church of the Cross, Lahti, FinlandRecording engineer: Robert de Godzinsky; Production: City of LahtiHere is another digital download kindly provided by MIMIC friend Howard. This recording disappeared for many years after the Finlandia label was subsumed into the Warner Music stable. Warner subsequently reissued the Sallinen and Merikanto works in 'Meet the Composer' CD twofers but the Hindemith had to await the 2011 appearance of the original album as a digital download. Given that this is an all vocal disc it is a great […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-11-15 11:59:00
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 in F minor | Daníel Bjarnason: Violin Concerto | George Antheil: Over the Plains – Pekka Kuusisto, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, John Storgårds – Saturday, November 17, 2018, 08:00 PM EST (GMT-5) – Livestream
Pekka Kuusisto (Photo by Kaapo Kamu) Tchaikovsky poured his soul into symphonies that would express his anguish and passions as no music had ever dared to. John Storgårds conducts Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, and Pekka Kuusisto plays Daníel Bjarnason's new Violin Concerto. "Defining music's brave new world", says Time Out NY of Bjarnason. "The David Bowie of the fiddle", raves The Times of London of Kuusisto.Saturday, November 17Los Angeles: 05:00 PMDetroit, New York, Toronto, Lima: 08:00 PMBrasília: 11:00 PMSunday, November 18London: 01:00 AMParis, Brussels, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Warsaw, Stockholm, Oslo: 02:00 AMAthens, Kiev, Jerusalem, Beirut, Cape Town: 03:00 AMMoscow, Ankara: 04:00 AMAbu Dhabi: 05:00 AMNew Delhi: 06:30 AMBeijing, Manila, Hong Kong: 09:00 AMTokyo, Seoul: 10:00 AMLive on Livestream George Antheil (1900-1959)♪ Over the Plains (1945)Daníel Bjarnason (b. 1979)♪ Violin Concerto (2017) *Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)♪ Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.36 (1877-1878)i. Andante sostenuto – Moderato con anima – Moderato assai, quasi Andante – Allegro vivoii. Andantino in modo di canzoneiii. Scherzo. […]