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Content: Einojuhani Rautavaara Artists: Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Max Pommer, conductor Genres: Orchestral Finnish contemporary Features: Booklet with liner notes written by Kalevi Aho, in English, German and Finnish |
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Format: CD Released: October 1998 (re-release) July 1990 (original release) Catalogue No.: ODE 747-2 EAN/UPC Code: 0761195074725 |
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| Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) | ||||||
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Concerto for Birds and Orchestra "Cantus Arcticus" (1972) | |
17:10 | |
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| 1 | I. The Bog | 6:48 | ||||
| 2 | II. Melancholy | 3:51 | ||||
| 3 | III. Swans Migrating | 6:35 | ||||
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Symphony No. 4 "Arabescata" (1962) | |
16:33 | |
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| 4 | I. | 3:07 | ||||
| 5 | II. | 5:00 | ||||
| 6 | III. | 2:58 | ||||
| 7 | IV. | 5:19 | ||||
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Symphony No. 5 (1986) | |
31:32 | |
Few contemporary symphonic composers deserve as high acclaim as Einojuhani Rautavaara. (...) Not since the Sallinen Third Symphony have I been as impressed with a new symphony as I am with No. 5. A truly great masterpiece.
Lewis M. Smoley, American Record Guide, July/August 1991
Rautavaara (...) vermag mit allen stilistischen Mittlen (...) seinen Werken eine suggestive Anschaulichkeit zu geben. (...) Das Leipziger Radio-Symphonie-Orchester unter Max Pommer musiziert auf allerhöchstem Niveau.
Giselher Schubert, Fono Forum, April 1991
Devant ce disque remarquable, on ne peut que souhaiter que Pommer nous donne à entendre d'autres partitions de ce grand musicien.
Franck Mallet, Le Monde de la Musique/Télérama, Mars 1991
This CD features one of the most frequently performed Finnish orchestral works of all time, Cantus Arcticus - Concerto for Birds and Orchestra by Einojuhani Rautavaara, which is coupled with Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5.
This release is the second volume in a cycle featuring the complete symphonies by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. The recordings were made in Leipzig in 1989/1990, with the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra led by its then Chief Conductor Max Pommer, and originally released in July 1990.