Content: Matti Salminen Artists: Matti Salminen, bass Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra John Storgårds, conductor Genres: Orchestral Vocal Finnish contemporary Finnish traditional Features: Booklet with liner notes in Finnish and English and the sung texts in the original language and in English |
Format: CD Released: October 2008 Catalogue No.: ODE 1135-2 EAN/UPC Code: 0761195113523 |
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One of the greatest operatic basses of his generation and beyond (...) his latest disc celebrates the naturalness of his art. (...) Under John Storgårds's baton, the Helsinki Philharmonic accompanies Salminen generously. Matti Salminen is an acoustic phenomenon and possibly the finest authentic bass singer of our time. The winner of two Grammies owes his legendary reputation to a uniquely powerful and dark voice, and he continues to sing Wagner, Mozart and Mussorgsky roles at nearly every prominent opera house and concert hall in the world. It is known that the scheduling of Wagner operas at the New York Met is adjusted to suit Salminen's diary. |