AHO Works with and for Organ
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Composer or Director: Kalevi Aho, Johann Sebastian Bach
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: BIS
Magazine Review Date: 08/2014
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 62
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: BIS1966
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Quasi una fantasia |
Kalevi Aho, Composer
Jan Lehtola, Organ Kalevi Aho, Composer Petri Komulainen, Horn |
Epilogue |
Kalevi Aho, Composer
Jan Lehtola, Organ Jussi Vuorinen, Trombone Kalevi Aho, Composer |
(Die) Kunst der Fuge, '(The) Art of Fugue', Movement: Contrapunctus 14 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Jan Lehtola, Organ Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer |
Wedding March I |
Kalevi Aho, Composer
Jan Lehtola, Organ Kalevi Aho, Composer |
Wedding March II |
Kalevi Aho, Composer
Jan Lehtola, Organ Kalevi Aho, Composer |
Wedding Music |
Kalevi Aho, Composer
Jan Lehtola, Organ Kalevi Aho, Composer |
Ludus solemnis |
Kalevi Aho, Composer
Jan Lehtola, Organ Kalevi Aho, Composer |
In memoriam |
Kalevi Aho, Composer
Jan Lehtola, Organ Kalevi Aho, Composer |
Song of the Earth |
Kalevi Aho, Composer
Anna-Kaisa Pippuri, Oboe Jan Lehtola, Organ Kaija Saarikettu, Violin Kalevi Aho, Composer |
Author: Ivan Moody
The longest piece here is the austere Quasi una fantasia for horn and organ but for me the most impressive works are Ludus solemnis, whose opening suggests a majestic chorale prelude and then splinters into a sequence of precisely coloured landscapes, exploiting to the full the magnificent Åkerman & Lund organ in St John’s church in Malmö, and the elegiac Laulu maasta (‘Song of the Earth’) for violin, oboe and organ. This latter is just under five minutes in length but one feels that it could be expanded into a much longer piece, so engaging is the material and so fascinating the colours produced by this unlikely trio of instruments. There are also simpler, practical pieces here – three wedding marches written at different times, an Epilogue for trombone and organ, and a lovely In memoriam. There is clearly more for Aho to say in this field and Lehtola is the man to transmit the message.
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