Sakari Oramo, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Joonas Kokkonen: Cello Concerto; Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 221 Mb | Total time: 62:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1098-2 | Recorded: 2007
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 221 Mb | Total time: 62:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ondine | # ODE 1098-2 | Recorded: 2007
If you’re only interested in a single disc of Joonas Kokkonen’s music, then let this be the one. It contains three out-and-out masterpieces, stunningly played and recorded with even more vividness and immediacy than on the already superb BIS complete orchestral music edition. Kokkonen’s austere but deeply felt idiom, with its atmospheric tone colors and fleeting lyricism, follows logically on the Sibelius of the Fourth Symphony. This is particularly true of Kokkonen’s Third and Fourth Symphonies, which have much the same feeling of organic growth from just a few simple motives that so often characterizes Sibelius’ work.