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Aho - Concert for Chamber Orchestra

Composer Kalevi Aho
Performer Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic
Monica Groop
Herman Rechberger
Lapland Chamber Orchestra
John Storgårds, conductor
Period Contemporary
Catalogue Number BIS-1686 CD
EAN 7318590016862
Format CD
Release date Mar 2009
Total time 79'34


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In 2003 Kalevi Aho received the unusual commission of composing a complete concert programme. The composer's ambition was to devise a great ‘metasymphony’ in which each work should also be suitable for performance individually, and in his liner notes Aho relates the special difficulties involved in such a project. From the start he knew that the Read more
 
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  Kalevi Aho
  Kysymysten kirja (The Book of Questions) (Suite for
mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra)
24'21
01 I. Jos olenkin (If I Just Had) 2'55
02 II. Ruusun asu · (The Rose’s Apparel) 2'07
03 III. Merenneitojen kyynelet (A Mermaid’s Tears) 2'35
04 IV. Minne päättyy sateenkaari? (Where Does the Rainbow End?) 3'06
05 V. Nainen unessa (The Woman in the Dream) 1'00
06 VI. Mitä merkitystä? (What Meaning) 1'57
07 VII. Lapsuuteni kuollessa (When My Childhood Died) 1'38
08 VIII. Tunneli (The Tunnel) 1'41
09 IX. Kun näen meren (When I See the Sea) 1'20
10 X. Kukkiva omenapuu (The Flowering Apple Tree) 1'22
11 XI. Perhoset (Butterflies) 4'40
 
  Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra 24'11
12 Crotchet = 58 5'19
13 Presto 3'36
14 Crotchet = 76 5'11
15 Cadenza 4'21
16 Allegretto 5'44
 
  Symphony No.14, Rituaaleja Rituals 30'03
17 Loitsu I (Kiihko) (Incantation I [Zeal]) 10'51
18 Interludi I (Interlude I) 2'08
19 Loitsu II (Kaiho ja vimma) (Incantation II [Yearning and Fury]) 4'55
20 Kulkue (Procession Jukka Koski gongs & tam-tams) 6'19
21 Interludi II (Interlude II) 2'15
22 Loitsu III (Lopetuksen mantra) (Incantation III [Mantra of the Ending]) 3'35
 
  Album total 79'34
ComposerAho, Kalevi
Mezzo-sopranoGroop, Monica
OrchestraChamber Orchestra of Lapland
ConductorStorgards (Storgårds), John
ViolaGribajcevic, Anna Kreetta
Darabuka & djembeRechberger, Herman

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