Hi Res Download, Aho (composer)
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Those who cherish earlier versions of Neilsen's masterpiece… will know how deep this music runs and how haunting it is. The young Swedish clarinettist give what I must say is the most searching... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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Fagerlund & Aho: Bassoon Concertos
RecommendedBram van Sambeek (bassoon)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu, Dima Slobodeniouk
A truly captivating disc…Bram van Sambeek takes everything in his evidently extensive stride. The agility, conviction, impish humour and searing seriousness all stem from a remarkably rounded... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Concerto
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Aho: Symphonic Dances 'Hommage à Uuno Klami', etc.
Kroumata Percussion Ensemble, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Aho's Symphonic Dances (2001) bear the subtitle 'Hommage à Uuno Klami' – and therein lies the clue to the work's genesis. Klami (1900- 1961), one of the leading Finnish composers of the last... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2004, Editor's Choice
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The works are markedly different in character, yet both exhibit an underlying enigmatic quality against which an array of moods and textures are explored through an ever-changing post-tonal... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Concerto Choice
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Kalevi Aho: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Cello Concerto No. 2
Elina Vähälä (violin), Jonathan Roozeman (cello)
Kymi Sinfonietta, Olari Elts
Superb performances by Elina Vähälä and Jonathan Roozeman confirm the idiomatic nature of Aho’s writing (having tried out the solo parts himself), and Olari Elts secures a committed response... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Kalevi Aho: Sieidi & Symphony No. 5
Colin Currie
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk, Jaan Ots
Currie, for whom Sieidi was written, delivers a knockout account with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk...The Symphony, similarly intense and explosive, is a yet more ambitious... — More…
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Kalevi Aho - Rituals
Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic (viola) & Herman Rechberger (darabuka & djembe)
Chamber Orchestra of Lapland, John Storgårds
Following the Luosto Symphony's premiere, Aho wanted to write on a smaller scale, for chamber orchestra. In the event, however, he produced a concert full of three interlinked works (2006-07)... — More…
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Kalevi Aho: Timpani & Piano Concertos
Ari-Pekka Mäenpää (timpani), Sonja Fräki (piano)
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Erkki Lasonpalo, Eva Ollikainen
Ari-Pekka Mäenpää, who workshopped the score with Aho, plays it heroically but it’s difficult not to conclude that these lumbering instruments aren’t charismatic enough to headline a half-hour... — More…
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Kalevi Aho: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 13
Antti Siirala (piano)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Both pieces are classics examples of Aho's more recent manner, and a truly engaging manner it is, especially in the hands of such committed performers as these — More…
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Aho: Symphony No. 12 ‘Luosto Symphony’
Taina Piira (soprano), Aki Alamikkotervo (tenor) & Hannu Lehtonen (saxophone)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Orchestra of Lapland, John Storgårds
Like Vaughan Williams's Seventh, Aho's Twelfth is a work of immediate effect yet needs time to make its full impact. — More…
