Artist: John-Edward Kelly, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Stefan Asbury, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
Album: Kalevi Aho: Chamber Symphonies Nos 1–3
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2012
Audio Format: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 56:40
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 506 MB
Tracklist:
01. Tapiola Sinfonietta, Stefan Asbury – Chamber Symphony No.1 – Andante – Prestissimo – Poco meno mosso – Presto – Tempo I – Presto – Andante – Tempo di Valse – Tempo I – Allegro –Tempo I – Poco meno mosso (13:29)
02. Tapiola Sinfonietta, Stefan Asbury – Chamber Symphony No.2 – [no tempo marking] (07:43)
03. Tapiola Sinfonietta, Stefan Asbury – Chamber Symphony No.2 – [Letter F] (03:29)
04. Tapiola Sinfonietta, Stefan Asbury – Chamber Symphony No.2 – Furioso (05:08)
05. John-Edward Kelly, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Chamber Symphony No.3 for alto saxophone and string orchestra – I. …jäätyivät umpeen levottomat vedet (…frozen are the restless waters) (07:16)
06. John-Edward Kelly, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Chamber Symphony No.3 for alto saxophone and string orchestra – II. …ah, olen kuullut villihanhien huudot (…oh, I have heard the wild geese calling) (05:51)
07. John-Edward Kelly, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Chamber Symphony No.3 for alto saxophone and string orchestra – III. …pitkät yöt sulavat (…the long nights are melting) (07:25)
08. John-Edward Kelly, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Chamber Symphony No.3 for alto saxophone and string orchestra – IV. …soutaa avomerta päin tulipunainen laiva (…towards the open sea rows a fire-red boat) (06:17)
02. Tapiola Sinfonietta, Stefan Asbury – Chamber Symphony No.2 – [no tempo marking] (07:43)
03. Tapiola Sinfonietta, Stefan Asbury – Chamber Symphony No.2 – [Letter F] (03:29)
04. Tapiola Sinfonietta, Stefan Asbury – Chamber Symphony No.2 – Furioso (05:08)
05. John-Edward Kelly, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Chamber Symphony No.3 for alto saxophone and string orchestra – I. …jäätyivät umpeen levottomat vedet (…frozen are the restless waters) (07:16)
06. John-Edward Kelly, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Chamber Symphony No.3 for alto saxophone and string orchestra – II. …ah, olen kuullut villihanhien huudot (…oh, I have heard the wild geese calling) (05:51)
07. John-Edward Kelly, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Chamber Symphony No.3 for alto saxophone and string orchestra – III. …pitkät yöt sulavat (…the long nights are melting) (07:25)
08. John-Edward Kelly, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Chamber Symphony No.3 for alto saxophone and string orchestra – IV. …soutaa avomerta päin tulipunainen laiva (…towards the open sea rows a fire-red boat) (06:17)
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The focus of Kalevi Aho’s output lies on large-scale orchestral works, and his work-list includes fifteen symphonies to date, composed between 1969 and 2010. Although the Finnish composer is famously lavish as an orchestrator, and often invites rare guests such as the heckelphone into his orchestra, the scores of Aho’s three chamber symphonies are much more economic in scale. Although composed for some twenty strings in all, they bear eloquent proof of the composer’s aim of exploiting to the full the expressive capabilities of a string orchestra. Consequently these works are highly demanding for the players, not because virtuosity has been an end in itself, but for reasons of maximum expressivity.