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Helsinki Baroque Orchestra & Aapo Häkkinen – Crusell: The Last Warrior; Bassoon Concerto; Overture to ‘The Little Slave Girl’ (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:15 minutes | 888 MB | Genre: Classical
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This new album by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra and Aapo Häkkinen together with the Audi Jugendchorakademie and bassoonist Jani Sunnarborg featuring late works by composer Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775–1838) makes an important addition to the recordings of Nordic Classical period works and of early Finnish music. Highlight of the album is the world première recording of Crusell’s Viking-themed ‘The Last Warrior’ (Den sista kämpen), the composer’s last large-scale composition.
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Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Aapo Hakkinen – Johan Joachim Agrell: Orchestral Works (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:48 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
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Johan Agrell was in many ways a traveler between the worlds: in Uppsala, the Swede’s great talent was recognized by the Hessian envoy, which resulted in Agrell being summoned to a court near Kassel in Germany. He later went as municipal chapel-master to Nuremberg.
Musically, Agrell was a brilliant Baroque composer in whose works many of the new early Classical trends were anticipated. This recording thus continues the series of AEOLUS releases that feature the orchestral music of this exciting period, a series that has already very successfully presented works by Fasch, Hertel, and Molter.
The Helsinki Baroque Orchestra is a shining star of Finland’s musical life. The young musicians around the harpsichordist Aapo Häkkinen appear year after year throughout Europe. Further releases on AEOLUS are in preparation.
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Helsinki Baroque Orchestra – 4 Symphonies (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:07 minutes | 992 MB | Genre: Classical
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Czech composer Franz Xaver Dussek (or Frantisek Xaver Dusek), apparently unrelated to Jan Ladislav Dussek, was a friend of Mozart, who stayed with him in Prague while finishing Don Giovanni. Dussek was born in 1731, and the four symphonies recorded here probably date from the 1760s or early 1770s. They are good examples of the early Viennese symphony, which by that time had penetrated to Prague, 200 miles away. Each one is in three movements, with clear and cleverly handled sonata forms in the opening movement that suggest that the composer, even at this early date, was following what Haydn was up to; the brevity of the finales also suggests Georg Christoph Wagenseil. All are sunny in mood, with no influence from the German Sturm und Drang movement (which they may well have preceded). Most interesting are the slow movements, which eschew simple melody in favor of graceful, shifting textures based on broken-up chords that never quite settle down when you expect them to. The Helsinki Baroque Orchestra under Aapo Häkkinen handles these elegantly but elsewhere at times has the undesirable severe quality that afflicts Baroque-oriented ensembles that move into Classical-period repertory; the music lacks a little in the galant department. But this composer, all but unknown, needs more exposure, especially in view of his connection with Mozart, and Classical-period specialists, students, and enthusiasts will welcome this well-recorded release.
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Elisabeth Breuer, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Aapo Hakkinen – Beethoven: Egmont, Op. 84 (Live) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:26 minutes | 943 MB | Genre: Classical
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Beethoven was really following his heart when he chose to set Goethe’s dramas to music. The work is a dream of a utopia of a free humanity; a dream Beethoven had already held up in his opera Fidelio and that reached its culmination in his Ninth Symphony. Written in 1788, Goethe’s piece has the Count of Egmont grappling with a despotic Duke, who represents the Spanish invader in Flanders. Arrested, imprisoned and abandoned, he is condemned to death. But his martyrdom turns out to be a victory against absolutism. For Beethoven, this was a goldmine. With great enthusiasm, he sent his score to the poet… And got no response.
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Aapo Häkkinen, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra – Bach, J.S.: Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. 2 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:02:30 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
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Aapo Häkkinen concludes the cycle of concertos for solo harpsichord and strings. Like in volume 1, he plays a 16’ harpsichord.
That is to say, an instrument with an additional, very low sounding register. Although Bach probably used a similar harpsichord himself, this is the first recording of this cycle of works on an instrument of this kind built in a historical manner! Häkkinen, harpsichordist and director of the ensemble, convinces not only by means of this sonority, but also though his musical powers of imagination and the precision of his articulation.
The Helsinki Baroque Orchestra plays one on a part, and is obliged to the best Baroque traditions. This time the CD contains as a “solo encore,” so to speak, the Fantasia BWV 906 as well as a Concerto for harpsichord solo by Bach’s son Wilhelm Friedemann.
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Aapo Häkkinen, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra – Bach, J.S.: Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. 1 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:33 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Classical
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In 2012, too, there are prominent treasures to be found: Aapo Häkkinen plays Bach’s Concertos for solo harpsichord and strings – the crown jewels of the harpsichord and piano literature – on a 16’ harpsichord, that is to say, an instrument with an additional, very low sounding register. Although Bach probably used a similar harpsichord himself, this is the first recording of this cycle of works on an instrument of this kind built in a historical manner!
Vol. 2 will contain: BWV 1054, 1055, and 1057. The Helsinki Baroque Orchestra plays one on a part, and is obliged to the best Baroque traditions. As an “encore,” so to speak, the CD also contains Bach’s famous Italian Concerto for harpsichord solo – on the 16’ instrument, it is an amazing sonic experience!
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Aapo Häkkinen, Helsinki Baroque Orchestra – Johan Joachim Agrell: Orchestral Works (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:16:48 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Aeolus
Johan Agrell was in many ways a traveler between the worlds: in Uppsala, the Swede’s great talent was recognized by the Hessian envoy, which resulted in Agrell being summoned to a court near Kassel in Germany. He later went as municipal chapel-master to Nuremberg.
Musically, Agrell was a brilliant Baroque composer in whose works many of the new early Classical trends were anticipated. This recording thus continues the series of AEOLUS releases that feature the orchestral music of this exciting period, a series that has already very successfully presented works by Fasch, Hertel, and Molter.
The Helsinki Baroque Orchestra is a shining star of Finland’s musical life. The young musicians around the harpsichordist Aapo Häkkinen appear year after year throughout Europe. Further releases on AEOLUS are in preparation.