Rautavaara: Violin Concerto / Isle of Bliss / Angels and Visitations
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EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Rautavaara: Violin Concerto / Isle of Bliss / Angels and Visitations
Elmar Oliveira (violin) / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Leif Segerstam, conductor
[ Ondine / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 26 February 2005
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"Rautavaara's wholly original Violin Concerto is hauntingly accessible and grips the listener completely...Segerstam provides a shimmering backing and directs a committed and persuasively spontaneous orchestral response throughout all three works."
(Rosette Penguin Stereo Guide)
The remarkable international success of the albums Angel of Light and Angels and Visitations has brought Einojuhani Rautavaara (b. 1928) fame in the United States and throughout Europe. As an artist, Rautavaara accepts no intellectual boundaries or doctrines, he prefers to shape his own, individualistic ideals. Rautavaara is the most colourful and ambiguous figure in Finnish music, combining many artistic personae in one, from mystic and romantic to experimentalist and logician. His works are filled with rich colours, sweeping melodies, beautiful sonorities, and stalwart force. Rautavaara's extensive oeuvre underscores his extraordinary versatility, including as it does works in virtually every musical genre: operas, symphonies, concertos, vocal music and works for solo instrument.
Tracks:
Violin Concerto (1976-77)
Isle of Bliss (1995) 11:20
Angels and Visitations (1978)
