More By Artist: Olli Mustonen (piano)
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / DMITRY KABALEVSKY
Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas (with works by Prokofiev) Steven Isserlis (cello), Olli Mustonen (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] "This is an excellent performance, one which I will be enjoying regularly in the years to come. The recorded sound is also excellent as are the booklet notes by Steven Isserlis, who sets the scene well in his essay." Recommended Recording MusicWeb |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 Olli Mustonen (piano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Ondine / CD - released 6/Jul/2017 ] "The performance does include a spectacular Toccata at its centre, and the Larghetto has grandiosity" International Piano |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Concerto in Modo Misolido / Fountains of Rome Olli Mustonen (piano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo [ Ondine / CD - released 26/Oct/2010 ] "Oramo and his Finnish players to give us a highly atmospheric reading of exemplary clarity and, in the "Trevi", powerful dramatic effect." Gramophone |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28 (with Tchaikovsky - The Seasons) Olli Mustonen (piano) [ Ondine SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Oct/2006 ] |
SCRIABIN
Piano Works (incls 12 Etudes for piano, Op. 8) Olli Mustonen (piano) [ Ondine / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "Mustonen's beady and dazzling pianism is truly hypnotic...Few pianists have a more potent sense of the demoniac in music." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, June 2012 |
SIBELIUS
Works for piano (Includes 10 Pieces for Piano, Op. 58 & 13 Pieces for Piano, Op. 76) Olli Mustonen (piano) [ Ondine 20th Anniversary Edition / CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] "Oli Mustonen has one of the most distinctive pianistic personalities of our day." (Gramophone) |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Olli Mustonen (piano & conductor) / Tapiola Sinfonietta [ Ondine SACD / SACD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] This is the first of three volumes featuring the five Beethoven Piano Concertos and the piano version of the Violin Concerto on hybrid SACD, all performed by Olli Mustonen in the role as soloist and conductor of the Tapiola Sinfonietta. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 3 & 4 Olli Mustonen (piano) / Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Ondine / CD - released 15/May/2017 ] "Mustonen's performances are very accomplished - quasi-Gouldian would be the obvious way to describe them, the work of a keyboard provocateur with a keen recreative imagination. Lintu and his orchestra, however, are pleasingly consistent" Classical... |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU / EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Rautavaara & Martinů - Piano Concertos No. 3 Olli Mustonen (piano) / Lahti Symphony Orchestra Dalia Stasevska, conductor [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 4/Aug/2023 ] The Czech Bohuslav Martinů and the Finn Einojuhani Rautavaara may not seem to have much in common, but both have adopted an attitude free of musical puritanism, constantly finding new sources of inspiration. |
EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Peer Gynt / Piano Concerto / Symphony Olli Mustonen (piano) / San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt / Bergen Symphony Orchestra, Karsten Andersen [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "The San Francisco Chorus is first-class, as is the orchestral playing, and in the more dramatic numbers Blomstedt conducts with a great deal of dash and flair." (Gramophone on Peer Gynt) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos Olli Mustonen (piano/conductor), Tapiola Sinfonietta [ Ondine / 3 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "Ondine celebrates Beethoven's 250th anniversary of birth by re-issuing Olli Mustonen's Beethoven cycle with the Tapiola Sinfonietta. The three volumes were originally released in three separate volumes in 2007-9 as ODE 1099-5, ODE 1123-5, and ODE... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano & Chamber Music (Incls 24 Preludes & Fugues & Piano Quintet in G minor) Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Lilya Zilberstein (piano) Olli Mustonen (piano) Lynn Harrell (cello) Fitzwilliam String Quartet / Beaux Arts Trio [ Decca Budget Boxes / 5 CD - released 1/Jul/2006 ] Shostakovich wrote music in all genres but it is for the 15 Symphonies and 15 String Quartets that he is held in the highest esteem and for which he produced some of his greatest works |
