Archives de l’auteur : Derek Ho
A trip to Sweden with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Torleif Thedéen and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra should be commended for performing this rarely-performed work by a major composer. Of the two major professional orchestras in Helsinki, the artistic profile of ...All-English night at the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Under Pitkänen's committed leadership, this evening's performance of Elgar's Enigma Variations was a refreshing reminder that this piece is much more than an often-programmed warhorse to be taken for granted. Certain ...
Soirée anglaise à l’Orchestre philharmonique d’Helsinki
Sous la direction engagée de Joonas Pitkänen, l'interprétation des Variations Enigma d'Elgar rappelle que cette œuvre est bien plus qu'un cheval de bataille souvent programmé. Certaines pièces du répertoire orchestral ...
World Premiere of Tomi Räisänen’s Organ Concerto
Angela Metzger deserves to join the select group of organists who tour internationally as soloist with orchestra. A space for a concert organ was originally designed for the main concert hall ...
Création mondiale à Helsinki sur l’orgue offert par Kaija Saariaho
Au Centre musical d'Helsinki, l'organiste Angela Metzger créé le Concerto pour orgue du compositeur finlandais Tomi Räisänen, sur l'orgue offert généreusement par Kaija Saariaho. Un espace pour un orgue de concert ...
Gerald Finley sings Lieberson’s heartbreaking Songs of Love and Sorrow
Peter Lieberson's Songs of Love and Sorrow are not only emotionally direct, sincere, and unpretentious, but also heartbreakingly effective. The American composer Peter Lieberson composed the Songs of Love and Sorrow in difficult circumstances. He ...
Santtu-Matias Rouvali dirige Pettersson et Sibelius avec le Philharmonique de Tampere
Santtu-Matias Rouvali dirige la Symphonie n° 5 de Sibelius à Tampere et met à son répertoire la Symphonie n° 7 d'Allan Pettersson. Dans les cinq dernières années, l'étoile du chef d'orchestre finlandais ...
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts Pettersson and Sibelius with the Tampere Philharmonic
Under Rouvali's direction, Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 7 felt like a connected series of very long phrases, each executed with a single breath. In the past half-decade or so, the star of the ...
Olari Elts in all-Russian program with the Finnish RSO
The Estonian conductor Olari Elts is a regular visitor to Helsinki and is often seen on the podium in front of both the Helsinki Philharmonic and the Finnish Radio Symphony ...
A Pettersson double-header with Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony
Christian Lindberg brought out the epic, almost Bruckner-like grandeur in the brass in Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 15. In the early 1990s the Swedish record label BIS began an ambitious project ...
The Finnish RSO celebrates Magnus Lindberg
Any given Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra performance of Lindberg's music is both idiomatic and definitive. Throughout his long and distinguished career as a composer of orchestral music, the Finnish RSO, Lindberg's hometown ...
Raretés chambristes au festival du lac Tuusula en Finlande par John Storgårds
Pour les festivals de l'été finlandais, les mélomanes ont l'embarras du choix : des festivals de tous les styles et de tous les formats sont organisés dans tout le pays ...
Intensity and commitment: John Storgårds and the Kamus Quartet play Pettersson
Pettersson requires superhuman concentration and virtuosity from the soloist and this is exactly what John Storgårds brought to the table. Like elsewhere in the classical music world, summer in Finland marks ...
Love at first sight : Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
After the second date, it looks like the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Collon have a beautiful relationship ahead of them. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO) has had a ...
Coup de foudre à Helsinki : Nicholas Collon et l’Orchestre de la radio finlandaise
Après leur deuxième rendez-vous, il semble que l'Orchestre symphonique de la radio finlandaise et Nicholas Collon aient une belle relation devant eux. L'Orchestre symphonique de la radio finlandaise a connu un ...
Gustavo Gimeno in Britten and Shostakovich with the Finnish RSO
One of the most immediately appealing aspects of cellist Tomas Nuñez-Garcés' performance was his understated confidence and assured virtuosity. Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich were two of the greatest composers of ...
Osmo Vänskä’s Americana with the Helsinki Philharmonic
Soloist Jonathan Roozeman handled Barber's fearsome technical demands with ease, particularly the seemingly inhuman left-hand acrobatics required in the outer movements. One of the highlights of the current Helsinki Philharmonic season is the focus ...
Relishing the extremes : Hannu Lintu in Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 with the Finnish RSO
Both Lintu and the orchestra pulled out all the stops in the sprawling final movement. The winters are long and dark in Finland. Coincidence or not, Mahler's Symphony No. 6, the composer's ...
Christian Lindberg dans les Symphonies 5 et 7 d’Allan Pettersson
À l'instar des autres interprétations de cette série, Christian Lindberg fait ressortir chaque détail et chaque couleur de la Symphonie n° 7 d'Allan Pettersson tout en conservant un contrôle total ...
Intensité claire de Mälkki dans la n° 9 de Mahler à Helsinki
A Helsinki, la vision de Susanna Mälkki sur le dernier chef-d’œuvre qu'a pu achever Gustav Mahler se concentre sur un contrôle serré associé à une intensité claire et non sentimentale. A ...
In Helsinki, Mälkki’s cool-headed intensity in Mahler’s No. 9
Susanna Mälkki's take on Mahler's final completed masterpiece focused on tight control coupled with clear, unsentimental intensity. Nearing the end of her second year as music director of the Helsinki Philharmonic ...
Christian Lindberg in Allan Pettersson’s Symphonies No. 5 and 7
Like other releases in this series, Lindberg exposes every detail and every colour in Pettersson’s Symphony No. 7 while maintaining total control over the work’s overall structure. Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony ...
Passionate and virtuosic : Tianwa Yang in Britten’s Violin Concerto
Yang brought a devilish and almost unhinged quality to the dancing second movement of Britten's Violin Concerto, which further highlighted her amazing virtuosity. The current Helsinki season has been almost an ...
The sea in many forms: the Finnish premiere of Matthew Whittall’s piano concerto
Matthew Whittall's new piano concerto, Nameless Seas, was effective in evoking not only literal but also metaphorical feelings of the sea. Respighi is best known for his ecstatically colorful symphonic portraits of Rome, which ...
Par excellence : Vilde Frang in Britten’s Violin Concerto
Vilde Frang may have some tough competition, but she could just be the interpreter par excellence of Britten's Violin Concerto. In the past decade or so, frequent performances and new recordings of Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto seem to ...
Ulf Wallin tackles Pettersson’s massive Violin Concerto No. 2
Christian Lindberg made a thoroughly convincing argument of the inherent drama of Pettersson's music while emphasizing the fact that there is ultimately a song informing the music. Even in his native ...
Top class : Renée Fleming and Sakari Oramo at the Helsinki Festival
This evening's performance of Nielsen's Symphony No. 2 provided further evidence that the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra belongs in the top echelon of the world's great orchestras. Sakari Oramo is currently Chief Conductor ...
Finnish premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto
At least on this first hearing, Salonen's new Cello Concerto seemed confident and uncertain at the same time. This evening's concert marked the opening of Esa-Pekka Salonen's second season as Artist-in-Association with the Finnish National ...
