John-Edward Kelly

John-Edward Kelly, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Stefan Asbury, Jean-Jacques Kantorow – Kalevi Aho: Chamber Symphonies Nos 1–3 (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:40 minutes | 506 MB | Genre: Classical
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The focus of Kalevi Aho’s output lies on large-scale orchestral works, and his work-list includes fifteen symphonies to date, composed between 1969 and 2010. Although the Finnish composer is famously lavish as an orchestrator, and often invites rare guests such as the heckelphone into his orchestra, the scores of Aho’s three chamber symphonies are much more economic in scale. Although composed for some twenty strings in all, they bear eloquent proof of the composer’s aim of exploiting to the full the expressive capabilities of a string orchestra. Consequently these works are highly demanding for the players, not because virtuosity has been an end in itself, but for reasons of maximum expressivity.

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