CD Feature/ Anssi Karttunen & Kari Kriikku: "A Due"
Clarinet and Cello: An ensemble-type which never hides the fact that it is “difficult”.
CD Feature/ Peteris Vasks: "Pater Noster"
Ideal programmatic music: Is this message universal, trivial or none at all?
Labour of Love
Torn between dedication and rejection: A case for and against the cello/clarinet constellation.
CD Feature/ Karita Mattila: "Helsinki Recital"
Curtains being moved by invisible hands: Karita Mattila lifts the music to a spiritual plane.
CD Feature/ Tzimon Barto: "Ravel - Gaspard de la Nuit, Mirroirs"
Waking absent-minded record players lost in endless loops: Barto as a master of meditation.
Cd Feature/ Christoph Eschenbach: "Albert Roussel - Symphony No.2"
Flows like a silvery fluid through the tube of a tight thermometer in a whitely glowing vacuum.
CD Feature/ Sibelius: "Works for Violin and Orchestra"
A huge symphony of its own.
CD Feature/ Iiro Rantala: "Piano Concerto"
Wild mood swings! An emotional roller coster ride! A fire work of the senses!
CD Feature/ Tzimon Barto: "A Basket of Wild Strawberries"
Takes listeners to a marble zen garden in the morning.
Rautavaara Russia Rasputin
A new DVD by the Finish composer