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The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christoffer Sundqvist, Ville Rusanen, Ralf Gothóni - Sibelius and the Kalevala (2024)

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The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christoffer Sundqvist, Ville Rusanen, Ralf Gothóni - Sibelius and the Kalevala (2024)

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christoffer Sundqvist, Ville Rusanen, Ralf Gothóni - Sibelius and the Kalevala (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 3:42:42 | 891 Mb
Genre: Classical

It was during his study years in Vienna when Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) first read and discovered Finland’s national epic the Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lönnrot in 1835. Soon afterwards, Sibelius was celebrated in Finland for his Kullervo symphony, a breakthrough work based on one of the tragic stories from the Kalevala. Sibelius immersed himself with these ancient stories and just few years later wrote his Lemminkäinen Legends. Also his En Saga, although the composer both admitted and later denied its connections with the Kalevala, contains clear elements from Karelian folk music. It did not take long when Sibelius’ music became almost entirely associated with the national epic. To avoid this, the composer quickly distanced himself from the epic by giving more neutral titles to his works from the 1900s onwards. Still, the world of the Kalevala never totally left him: one of Sibelius’ most modern creations, his tone poem Luonnotar (1913) for soprano and orchestra, his Impressionistic The Oceanides (1914), as well as some of his final works, including his symphonic testament Tapiola from 1926, are looking back into the themes of the Kalevala. This digital album combines together some of Sibelius’ finest compositions inspired by the legends of the Kalevala.

Waltteri Torikka & Marko Hilpo - Oskar Merikanto: Songs (2024)

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Waltteri Torikka & Marko Hilpo - Oskar Merikanto: Songs (2024)

Waltteri Torikka & Marko Hilpo - Oskar Merikanto: Songs (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:09:10 | 250 Mb
Genre: Classical

During his lifetime, Oskar Merikanto (1868–1924) was the most popular composer in Finnish homes. Even today, especially at weddings and funerals, his pieces are widely heard and performed. Merikanto was an excellent pianist and organist and possessed a particular gift for writing memorable melodies. Enjoying great popularity, he wrote over 200 songs, a number of duets, several choral works and nearly 200 piano works. To mark the 100th anniversary of Merikanto's death in 2024, Waltteri Torikka has recorded 29 of his songs. Torikka topped the Finnish pop charts for 3 weeks in 2018, performs frequently in European opera festivals and is a frequent visitor on Finland’s top television programmes.

Timo Korhonen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Solo Violin (2009)

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Timo Korhonen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Solo Violin (2009)

Timo Korhonen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Solo Violin (2009)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:06 | 275 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1128-2

J.S. Bach's sonatas for solo violin, part of a long tradition of virtuoso works for the instrument, seem unsuited to transcription. But a guitar comes closer than perhaps any other instrument: it embodies a tension – not the same tension as with a solo violin but a tension nonetheless – between melodic material and polyphony. In the hands of Finnish guitarist Timo Korhonen they produce an unusual effect.

Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch & Tuija Hakkila - Bach: Six Sonatas, BWV 1014-1019 (2024)

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Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch & Tuija Hakkila - Bach: Six Sonatas, BWV 1014-1019 (2024)

Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch & Tuija Hakkila - Bach: Six Sonatas, BWV 1014-1019 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:34:42 | 505 Mb
Genre: Classical

All but the last of Johann Sebastian Bach’s six sonatas for violin and harpsichord (BWV 1014–19) commence with slow movements of intense feeling. This is music of implication and inference, the emotions no less real for their apparent lack of specificity. There is pleasure in the paradox: even without a text, the music sings. The copying and the performance of these sonatas were crucial to the mission of memorialising Bach’s music, but not merely as a matter of historical interest or archival fastidiousness. C. P. E. Bach described these works as among the best works of his 'dear departed father': they still sound very good and give me much joy, although they date back more than fifty years. They contain some Adagios that could not be written in a more singable manner today.' C. P. E. Bach’s well-worn copy of the Sonatas shows that he played them frequently. In this recording, Tuija Hakkila plays a copy of a Gottfried Silbermann 1747 fortepiano by Andrea Restelli. J. S. Bach played one of his fortepianos in 1747 in Potsdam for Frederick the Great and his court musicians. In his last years Bach even seems to have served as a dealer for Silbermann’s fortepianos in Leipzig.

Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester - Brahms: Violin Concerto; Dvorak Silent Woods (2023)

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Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester - Brahms: Violin Concerto; Dvorak Silent Woods (2023)

Christian Tetzlaff, Tanja Tetzlaff, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester - Brahms: Violin Concerto; Dvorak Silent Woods (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:00:44 | 270 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Ondine

This album by violinist Christian Tetzlaff and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff together with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Paavo Järvi, is dedicated in the memory of their longtime artistic partner, pianist Lars Vogt (1970–2022). At the heart of this album is Brahms, one of Lars Vogt’s favourite composers, and his late orchestral masterpiece, the Double Concerto. Brahms himself had admired one of Viotti’s violin concertos so much that he included material from the Violin Concerto no.22 into his work. With Christian Tetzlaff’s recording of the Violin Concerto, this album finally brings these two works together. Also included is Dvořák’s beautiful Silent Woods for cello and orchestra, a work by another composer that was very close to Lars Vogt’s heart.

Jean Sibelius Quartet - Sibelius: String Quartets (1991)

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Jean Sibelius Quartet - Sibelius: String Quartets (1991)

Jean Sibelius Quartet - Sibelius: String Quartets (1991)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:34 | 299B
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 773-2

It wasn't so long ago that the only Sibelius quartet on disc was Voces intimae. Now the catalogue boasts no fewer than three accounts of the A minor, and the Voces intimae itself is available in five different versions. It is worth, perhaps, reminding you that before the Kullervo Symphony, Sibelius had hardly composed anything other than chamber music. After his breakthrough as an orchestral composer he continued to write music for domestic use, but into none of it did he pour ideas of any real significance or inspiration, with the sole exception of Voces intimae.

Truls Mørk, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds - Hafliđi Hallgrímsson: Cello Concerto, Herma (2009)

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Truls Mørk, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds - Hafliđi Hallgrímsson: Cello Concerto, Herma (2009)

Truls Mørk, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds - Hafliđi Hallgrímsson: Cello Concerto, Herma (2009)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 57:21 | 243 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1133-2

Icelandic composer Haflidi Hallgrímsson began his career as a cellist and was the principal cellist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra before retiring to devote himself to composition. It's especially fitting, then, that the Scottish Chamber Orchestra plays two of his works for cello and orchestra on this CD, his Herma (1995) and Cello Concerto (2003). Hallgrímsson wrote the concerto for featured soloist Truls Mørk, who has performed it, as well as Herma, many times.

David Aaron Carpenter, Riitta Pesola, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Joseph Martin Kraus: Viola Concertos (2012)

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David Aaron Carpenter, Riitta Pesola, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Joseph Martin Kraus: Viola Concertos (2012)

David Aaron Carpenter, Riitta Pesola, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Joseph Martin Kraus: Viola Concertos (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:51 | 298 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1193-2

This new release features the first-ever commercial recording of three newly discovered viola concertos by German-born Swedish composer Joseph Martin Kraus. Joseph Martin Kraus was one of the most innovative composers of his time. With Mozart, he was described by Haydn as one of only two geniuses he knew. Recipient of the 2011 Leonard Bernstein Award and of the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant, David Aaron Carpenter has emerged as one of the world's most promising young artists. The Philadelphia Inquirer describes him as being “in a league with the best.”

Christian Tetzlaff, Daniel Harding - Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto, Antiphon, Insel der Sirenen (2013)

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Christian Tetzlaff, Daniel Harding - Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto, Antiphon, Insel der Sirenen (2013)

Christian Tetzlaff, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding - Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto, Antiphon, Insel der Sirenen (2013)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 60:00 | 280 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1215-2

For this 2013 release from Ondine, violinist Christian Tetzlaff, conductor Daniel Harding, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra present three exciting works by Jörg Widmann, a German composer who possesses an impressive talent for orchestration. The Violin Concerto is the most imposing piece on the program, at nearly a half hour in duration and of an exceptionally wide range of techniques and sonorities, and it serves as a powerfully expressive vehicle for Tetzlaff. Long lines predominate, and the tonal inflections of the chromatic writing make it quite accessible to listeners who don't normally listen to contemporary works.

Leif Segerstam - Sibelius: Complete Symphonies, Violin Concerto, Finlandia (2005)

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Leif Segerstam - Sibelius: Complete Symphonies, Violin Concerto, Finlandia (2005)

Leif Segerstam, Pekka Kuusisto, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra - Sibelius: Complete Symphonies, Violin Concerto, Finlandia (2005)
XLD | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 04:40:09 | 1,16 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1075-2Q

These four discs collect Leif Segerstam's second cycle of the symphonies of Sibelius. First issued by Ondine in the early years of the 21st century as separate discs filled out with symphonic poems, the symphonies are here condensed into a cold, hard block of eternity. Segerstam's first Sibelius cycle for Chandos in the early Nineties aimed both barrels at eternity, but with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra's colorful and dedicated but sometimes too cheerful playing, he didn't always hit it.

Mikko Franck, Max Pommer, Leif Segerstam - Einojuhani Rautavaara: The 8 Symphonies (2009)

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Mikko Franck, Max Pommer, Leif Segerstam - Einojuhani Rautavaara: The 8 Symphonies (2009)

Mikko Franck, Max Pommer, Leif Segerstam - Einojuhani Rautavaara: The 8 Symphonies (2009)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 03:58:51 | 980 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1145-2Q

Einojuhani Rautavaara may well be the most popular symphonist alive today. On the occasion of his 80th anniversary, Ondine pays homage to its longtime house composer by releasing the first-ever edition of the complete eight symphonies, in a special box set. Rautavaara is recognized as the greatest Finnish composer after Jean Sibelius. He has often described symphonic music as a journey through human life.

VA - Elliott Carter: Late Works (2017)

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VA - Elliott Carter: Late Works (2017)

VA - Elliott Carter: Late Works (2017)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 74:42 | 265 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1296-2

The late works of Elliott Carter (1908 2012) are so numerous as to constitute an output on their own. Just where the composer’s ‘late period’ begins is itself a matter of conjecture, yet no one hearing the pieces on this disc is likely to doubt their technical finesse or expressive refinement: qualities that go a long way towards the defining of ‘lateness’ in artistic terms.

VA - Einojuhani Rautavaara: 12 concertos (2009)

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VA - Einojuhani Rautavaara: 12 concertos (2009)

VA - Einojuhani Rautavaara: 12 concertos (2009)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 04:28:27 | 1 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1156-2Q

This four-disc Ondine set collects the complete concertos of Einojuhani Rautavaara. While these 12 works may not make the best argument for the Finnish post-modernist's status as a great composer – his eight symphonies surely make good that claim – they certainly make the best argument for his status as an amazingly effective, astoundingly diverse, and wonderfully individualistic composer. The works themselves are all from Rautavaara's wide-ranging maturity.

Christian Tetzlaff & Tanja Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt - Schubert: Chamber Works (2023)

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Christian Tetzlaff & Tanja Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt - Schubert: Chamber Works (2023)

Christian Tetzlaff & Tanja Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt - Schubert: Chamber Works (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 2:16:10 | 521 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Ondine

This new double-album by pianist Lars Vogt, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff includes some of Franz Schubert’s (1797–1828) greatest works of chamber music, including his Piano Trios and the Arpeggione Sonata, in breath-taking interpretations. Franz Schubert wrote his two numbered Piano Trios, as well as the Notturno for piano trio, during the very last months in his life, in 1827 and 1828. Like Beethoven, Schubert’s final works in chamber music are masterpieces of great emotional depth. The famous Arpeggione Sonata (1824) and Rondo for violin and piano (1826) were written slightly earlier, but can also be counted among Schubert’s late works.

Kari Kriikku, Tapiola Sinfonietta, John Storgårds - Mozart, Molter: Clarinet Concertos (2005)

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Kari Kriikku, Tapiola Sinfonietta, John Storgårds - Mozart, Molter: Clarinet Concertos (2005)

Kari Kriikku, Tapiola Sinfonietta, John Storgårds - Mozart, Molter: Clarinet Concertos (2005)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 62:19 | 332 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1056-2

Mozart?s concerto actually began life as a concerto for basset horn (not basset clarinet) and was written in the key of G. The manuscript ended abruptly after the 191st measure of the first movement. Mozart rethought his plan, decided to recast the concerto in A, and overhauled the solo part for basset clarinet, an instrument developed by his friend Anton Stadler The version that entered the repertoire after Mozart?s death was an adaptation of the original.