The suites from Peer Gynt, through no fault of his own, are Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's calling card. Certain pieces, such as "Morning Mood" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" are well known even among those who have never heard of Grieg. However, Grieg's incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt is only seldom recorded as a ...
Arvo Pärt's early works may not immediately appeal to fans of the meditative, tonal music he composed after 1976, but they spell out his profound conflicts with the avant-garde and the soul-searching that led to his simplified, "tintinnabular" style. Pro et Contra is a quizzical concerto for cello and orchestra in which tonal and atonal elements ...
Conservative to the point of being reactionary, restrained to the point of being objective and spiritual to the point of being almost unendurable, the Requiem of twentieth century Estonian composer Cyrillus Kreek is unlike any other work in the repertoire. Austere yet heartfelt, dark-hued yet radiant, rooted in the themes and harmonies of folk ...
Labeled a disc of Sibelius cantatas but more evocatively described in the liner notes as a collection of patriotic works for choir and orchestra, this release focuses on a part of the Sibelius repertory that performers have shunned for decades. These pieces represent not the darkly introspective Sibelius but rather the big, nationalistic, ...
This two-disc set of Paavo Järvi conducting Sibelius will be mandatory listening for fans of the Finnish conductor for two reasons. First and foremost, it easily contains the best performance of his early one-act opera The Maiden in the Tower ever recorded. As Sibelius' fans know, this is not all that difficult a trick since there has only ever ...
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