Sibelius - Kullervo; Kortekangas - Migrations
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS9048
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 3rd March 2017
Contents
Artists
Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano)Tommi Hakala (baritone)
YL Male Voice Choir
Minnesota Orchestra
Conductor
Osmo VanskaWorks
Migrations for mezzo-soprano, male-voice choir and orchestraFinlandia, op.26
Kullervo, op.7
Artists
Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano)Tommi Hakala (baritone)
YL Male Voice Choir
Minnesota Orchestra
Conductor
Osmo VanskaAbout
Sibelius began working on Kullervo during his student days in Vienna in 1891, finding his inspiration in the Kalevala, Finland’s national epic. In a letter home to Finland he wrote about ‘a new symphony, totally in the Finnish spirit’ and the work is often regarded as the first successful example of a Finnish national musical language. In spite of what Sibelius wrote in his letter, the five-movement work is usually regarded as a symphonic poem, but with a duration of c.80 minutes Kullervo certainly has the scale of a large symphony, and as such the present performance forms a worthy appendix to the highly acclaimed Sibelius cycle which the orchestra and Vänskä brought to a close with the recent release of Symphonies Nos. 3, 6 and 7. As a fitting close to this two-disc set, and to the concerts in Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall, the orchestra performs Sibelius’s Finlandia, with the YL Male Voice Choir joining in in the famous hymn section.
Reviews
As on the previous recording, the mezzo soloist in the central scena for Kullervo and his sister/lover is the thrilling Lilli Paasikivi, again with the Helsinki University-based YL Male Voice Choir providing the narration; Tommi Hakala is the baritone this time. Andrew Clements
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