Content: Toivo Kuula Artists: Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Leif Segerstam, conductor Genres: Orchestral Finnish traditional Features: Sleeve notes in English and Finnish |
Format: CD Released: September 2015 Catalogue No.: ODE 1270-2 EAN/UPC Code: 0761195127025 |
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Varying, eclectic pieces, often reflecting haunting Sibelian sonorities (...). An original voice is there throughout, though (...). Leif Segerstam and the Turku Philharmonic are as usual excellent. Performance: ****
Recording: ****
Michael Scott Rohan, BBC Music Magazine, January 2016
Toivo Kuula (1883-1918), a Finnish composer with significant melodic gifts and a private pupil of Sibelius, is best-known as a tragic national-romantic composer of vocal music. Although Kuula's focus was in vocal music he took considerable interest in writing orchestral music and in his orchestral works he is often a conjurer of powerful Nordic moods. Kuula had also aims of becoming a symphonist but his untimely death left the project unfinished.
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