Mari Mäntylä - Orfeo Amoroso (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 214 Mb | Total time: 65:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 406 | Recorded: 2016, 2017
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 214 Mb | Total time: 65:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 406 | Recorded: 2016, 2017
Fielding an all-contemporary agenda, mostly by composers with links to her native Finland, Mari Mäntylä is a skilled and expressive player who presents a persuasive case for the decacorde. The leaden properties that blunted the many positive attributes of Yepes’ recorded legacy are absent, Mäntylä’s instruments sounding like unusually resonant standard guitars entering territory their six-string forbears are denied. Nowhere is this more striking than in Kymmari by Jukka Tiensuu, composed for Mäntylä’s semi-fretless decacorde. Two strings are altered by a quarter tone and yes, the music is seriously heavyweight. Its unique soundscape is an experience not to be missed. Elsewhere, there’s more accesible fare, the ethereal Pilvi kämmenellä (A Cloud on the Palm of the Hand), a potential ”hit” for the modern decacorde.
