Linde / Kliegel / Sundkvist / Gavle Sym Orch - Orchestral Works 1 - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Conductor Dalia Stasevka who received the BBC Music Magazine's 'Personality of the Year' Award in 2023 and the Lahti Symphony Orchestra present three works by the Finnish composer Helvi Leiviskä, who was Finland's first major female composer. Initially inspired by the language of late Romanticism - she mentioned Brahms as her favourite composer - Leiviskä developed an original, modern style that eschewed all schools, convinced that it was more important to tread one's own path than to follow fashionable styles. While her output may seem small in terms of quantity, it more than makes up for it in the quality of the works, especially her symphonies, a genre she considered 'the highest manifestation of music'. This disc presents three works the Sinfonia Brevis, a confidently crafted work reminiscent of Sibelius; the austere, restrained, melancholy and at times very dissonant Symphony No. 2, which could be called 'tragic'; and the Suite for orchestra No. 2, which uses material from a powerfully descriptive score originally composed for a film. This recording bears witness to the 'Leiviskä renaissance' that has taken place in recent years, which has contributed to the rediscovery of a neglected but important voice in Finnish music

After Schubert and Brahms, Jacques Ibert is at the centre of the third production Peter Gülke has recorded with his Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra for MDG. It has become much more than a InchstopoverInch Gülke presents the special, very individual qualities of this music between impressionism and neo-classicism, between romanticism and modernism, between virtuosity and sound painting on this Super Audio album with apparent matter-of-factness that testifies to deep knowledge and great respect. It is difficult to categorize Ibert as belonging to a fixed style. He was of course in contact with the composers of the InchGroupe des SixInch, who were around the same age, and of course influences by Ravel and Debussy cannot be ignored. InchEscalesInch(stopovers), allow Ibert to visit three very different places, each with it's own coloring, as if on a journey, including the call of the muezzin and hints of Zingharese. In our country, Ibert's music is grossly underestimated. At most, the flute concerto is on the programme now and then, and Gülke's expert compilation does not pass it by. Flutist Helen Dabringhaus, whom the composer hardly ever allowed time to breathe, audibly enjoys the demanding solo part, and in the polytonal layers of the second movement, the young virtuoso knows how to rub herself wonderfully against the accompanying strings. Outside musical stimuli are not uncommon in French music, and Ibert also draws inspiration from them, very clearly in the InchSuite symphoniqueInch, rather enigmatically in the InchSymphonie marineInch. The InchLouisville ConcertInch even strikes American notes. Gülke, who due to his age only wanted to take over the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra on a transitional basis, forms these poetic works into magical sound paintings in what is now his fourth season. A stroke of luck for the orchestra - and of course for the audience!

?Symphonic works by the long-forgotten Russian composer Vasily Kalinnikov