Rautavaara - Modificata, Incantations, Towards the Horizon
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Label: Ondine
Cat No: ODE11782
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 27th February 2012
Contents
Artists
Truls Mork (cello)Colin Currie (percussion)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
John StorgardsWorks
Cello Concerto no.2 'Towards the Horizon'Modificata
Percussion Concerto 'Incantations'
Artists
Truls Mork (cello)Colin Currie (percussion)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
John StorgardsAbout
This new recording couples Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s latest concerto works with an orchestral piece from his early Modernist period (Modificata - 1957/2003)
The virtuoso Percussion Concerto Incantations (2008) features the Scottish percussion soloist Colin Currie, who is the dedicatee and première performer of this work. Currie wrote himself the virtuoso cadenza to the final movement.
Rautavaara’s Second Cello Concerto Towards the Horizon (2009) was written for cellist Truls Mørk and plays continuously in one 20-minute movement. Reviewing the premiere, the Star Tribune noted that the composer "acknowledges a ‘taste for eternity’ and a vain of mysticsm runs through his work".
Einojuhani Rautavaara is recognized as one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius. His recordings on Ondine have been bestsellers and garnered numerous awards (including a recent Grammy nomination for his opera Kaivos).
Under their chief conductor John Storgårds, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra builds on long-time pedigrees of performing their compatriot’s music.
World première recordings.
"This is an immensely noteworthy issue, not as a potential epitaph for Rautavaara the concerto-composer but for the quality of the music-making itself - and sure, let's hope it does not prove the close of Rautavaara's career as a concerto-composer" - Gramophone
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