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Aho - Symphony No.11

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Catalogue numberBIS-1336 CD
Release date2004-01-28
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time60:09

Classics Today 10/10; Gramophone: outstanding; BBC Music Magazine: outstanding, Klassik Heute: outstanding; Music Web International: outstanding.

Kalevi Aho needs little introduction to people familiar with the BIS label. He is, quite simply, the foremost Finnish composer of his generation as well as the most prolific. This is our ninth disc devoted exclusively to his music and he has contributed single works to numerous other CDs. Aho is unique among contemporary composers in his concern for the music of his immediate forebears and the first half of this disc consists of his homage to the composer Uno Klami (1900-1961). Klami’s greatest work, the ballet score ‘Whirls’ (BIS-CD-656), was unfinished when the composer died. He was intending to write the definitive Finnish ballet based, as one would expect, on stories from Kalevala, the great poem of Finnish mythology that has inspired so much art in Finland. Kalevi Aho undertook to write the missing third act of this ballet so that the ballet could be performed in full and this was the origin of the ‘Symphonic Dances’ presented here. The second half of the disc comprises Aho’s eleventh symphony. Several of Aho’s previous symphonies have included a major part for a solo instrument. Here the ‘solo’ instrument consists of a huge battery of instruments performed by the six members of the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble! Once again Kalevi Aho displays his ability to get under the skin of an instrument and to communicate his insights in a musical language that is readily accessible.

Some press voices:

"A superb coupling of two strongly communicative contemporary works...which demonstrate Aho’s comprehensive mastery of rhythm, timbre and drama. Again, the performance is a definitive one and BIS’s engineering breathtaking in its realism." Gramophone July 2004

‘If you like big, colorful, late-Romantic music with real rhythm and drive, then you will find this disc totally thrilling, particularly given the outstanding, 100 percent committed performances by the forces that gave the premieres of both works.’ Classicstoday.com

"With the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä on their usual fine form and aided by a recording of admirable transparency and atmosphere, this is a winner of a disc." MusicWeb
 
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  Composer: Aho, Kalevi
  Symphonic Dances. Hommage à Uuno Klami (2001) 27:17
01 I. Prelude 03:13 $ 0.68 USD
02 II. Return of the Flames and Dance 04:53 $ 1.03 USD
03 III. Grotesque Dance 05:15 $ 1.10 USD
04 IV. Dance of the Winds and Fires 13:56 $ 2.93 USD
 
  Symphony No.11 for six percussionists and orchestra (1997-98) 31:31
05 I. 09:07 $ 1.91 USD
06 II. Andante - Allegro ritmico 10:48 $ 2.27 USD
07 III. Tranquillo 11:36 $ 2.44 USD
 
  Album total 60:09

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