Elina Vahala; Jonathan Roozeman; Kymi Sinfonietta; Olari Elts
Release Date: 03 March 2023
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599924663
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Kalevi Aho
Description
Having broken off work on a second violin concerto in 2012, the prolific Finnish composer Kalevi Aho only returned to the project after being contacted by the violinist Elina Vahala. While aware of the weight of tradition and eager to avoid the pitfalls of violinistic cliches, Aho nevertheless wrote a virtuoso work dominated by the soloist, who is offered many possibilities to realise her own interpretative conception. The orchestral part was specifically composed for the Kymi Sinfonietta with its sound in mind.
With his Cello Concerto No. 2, Aho also wanted to write a piece that orchestras of the size of a sinfonietta could include in their programmes. Here too the solo writing is particularly well suited to the instrument. The youngest winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015, cellist Jonathan Roozeman takes on this work in five movements played without interruption and in the last section delivers a cadenza as unusual as it is clever. The Kymi Sinfonietta is conducted here by Olari Elts, a champion of contemporary Baltic composers.
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