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2023-11-26 22:28:00
Saariaho Performances on the Web
Kaija Saariaho (and bits of Peter Sellars)Santa Fe, August, 2008Photo by Lisa HirschFound on line:Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France plays Sibelius and Saariaho, with Sakari Oramo, cond., and Anu Komsi, soprano:Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)En SagaOrchestre Philharmonique de Radio FranceHélène Collerette, violon soloSakari Oramo, directionKaija Saariaho (1952-2023)Saarikoski Songs (création française)Anu Komsi, sopranoOrchestre Philharmonique de Radio FranceSakari Oramo, directionHelsinki Radio Philharmonic (I think), Susanna Mälkki, cond., with trumpeter Verneri PohjolaSaariaho, HUSH (trumpet concerto)Mahler, Symphony no. 9
2023-10-06 00:00:00
Bruckner, Mahler, Salonen, Sibelius & A Nordic Festival (Esa-Pekka Salonen)
[…] MottleyEsa-Pekka Salonen - Composer01 Mimo II for oboe and orchestra [12'01]02 YTA I for flute [5'41]03 YTA II for piano [5'54]04 YTA III for cello [6'34]05 - 07 Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra [15'56]08 Floof for soprano and five players [9'36]Jorma Valjakka- oboe (01), Mikael Helasvuo- flute (2), Tuija Hakkila- piano (3), Anssi Karttunen- cell (4), Pekka Savijoki- alto saxophone (5 - 7), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen (01, 05-07), Anu Komsi- soprano, Members of the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra (08)Finlandia 4509-95607-2 [recorded 1989 to 1993; download issued 2011][digital-download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Culture Hall (01, 05-07), Järvenpää Hall (02-04), Studio M1 Finnish Broadcasting (08), Helsinki, FinlandRecording engineers:Jukka Heinonen (01), Robi Godzinsky (02-03), Enno Mäemets (04), Heikki Hölttä (05-08)Producers: Risto Räty (01, 05-07), Reijo Kiilunen (02), Tuija Hakkila (03), Anssi Karttunen (04), Heikki Valsta (08)A Nordic Festival:01 Hugo Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, op.19 'Midsummer […]
2020-11-06 16:16:56
Despite lockdown, there’s still live music making across the UK available to an online audience. Here’s our pick of next week’s live-streamed concerts BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo The BBCSO’s first live concert of the autumn at the Barbican includes the world premiere of a chamber-orchestra arrangement of Magnus Lindberg’s 2015 work Accused, with Anu Komsi as the protagonist. Sakari Oramo conducts, and prefaces the new work with Haydn’s La Passione symphony, No 49 in F minor, and Anna Clyne’s string meditation, Within Her Arms.•
2020-10-18 07:14:44
Classical-music aficionado, Tony Cooper, looks in on the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s special anniversary year
[…] appointment in 2013, had this to say: ‘Very often in these strange times my thoughts go back to a miraculous few days in 2012 when all of a sudden I found the most exciting artistic partnership of my life - the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The inaugural programme I conducted with the orchestra included Arnold Bax’s Tintagel and Sibelius’ Third Symphony as well as vocal works by Sibelius and Kaija Saariaho featuring my dear friend, Anu Komsi [Finnish operatic/concert soprano]. What a quintessentially BBC SO programme that was and yet probably one that hadn’t been dreamt of before.‘However, this is the very strength of the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s programming concept: strong on content, always looking for purposeful combinations of masterpieces old and new, well known and, above all, less familiar. The ability of this miraculous orchestra to transform itself according to the music it plays (literally any music) in tandem with […]
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