Nielsen: Aladdin Suite / Pan And Syrinx / Helios Overture
 Superb Shorter Orchestral Pieces by Nielsen: We are used to thinking of Carl Nielsen as one of the great symphonists of the twentieth century and there are multiple sets of recordings of them. But he also wrote a fair amount of orchestral music not in [... more]
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The House of the Sun: Tragedia Buffa, Opera in Two Acts
In a word....touching!!: Einojuhani Rautavaara's "The House of the Sun" is one of the more touching operas written within the last 20 years. It is loosely based on the lives of two twin sisters who lived in a rather unique form of obscurity in [... more]
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Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suites Nos. 1and 2 / Sigurd Jorsalfar ...
Unexpectedly Norwegian: When I bought this CD, I had no idea that there were two Peer Gynt Suites. All I knew was that the part about "In the Hall of the Mountain King" was part of a longer story, but exactly how that worked was still a mystery. [... more]
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Sounds Of Finland
Well trained children's choir - nice mix of music: Several of the works on this album are composed by Finns, or so I assume by their names: Sibelius, Hannikainen, Putro, Koskinen, Kuula, Panula, Pacius, Sallinen and Rautavaara. There are common European [... more]
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Rautavaara: Sacred Works for Mixed Chorus
A rich and rewarding CD: I first discovered the works of this remarkable Finnish composer through his orchestral release "On the Last Frontier" last year. In this, the first disc to showcase his small-scale choral writing, I have discovered an [... more]
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Sibelius: The Maiden In The Tower / Karelia Suite
A Sibelius rarity: THE MAIDEN IN THE TOWER is the closest the great Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius, ever came to writing a complete opera. This opera in one act has only been recorded twice, and this BIS release represents the first recording of the two. [... more]
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Nielsen, C.: Maskarade (Masquerade)
Nielsen's Comic Masterpiece Done Beautifully: There have been two modern recordings of Nielsen's comic opera, 'Maskarade' ('Masquerade'): this one from 1977 conducted by John Frandsen and reissued in SACD, and one recorded in the 1990s with Ulf Schirmer [... more]
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Jorgensen: ... And The Lotus Rose, Quietly, Quietly ...
Tribal Ritual Opera: Norgard's music of the 60s and early 70s is really quite in the spirit of the times...trippy, mystical and almost psychedelic. It is also indescribably beautiful. His mathematically based techniques are wedded to an ear for harmony [... more]
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Rautavaara: The Myth of Sampo
Binding: Music Download Genre: opera-music Release Date: 2006-06-27 Running Time: 3190 seconds [... more]
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Norgard: Siddharta / Percussion Concerto, 'For A Change'
What Pleasure is Built on the Pain of Others?: Per Norgard's second venture into musical dramatic territory was perhaps as much "of it's time" as his first. Where Gilgamesh was very much a multi-media piece with the character of a 1960s [... more]
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Norgard: Nuit Des Hommes
One of the oddest but most fascinating of contemporary operas: The war-themed "Nuit des hommes" (1995-96) is Per Norgard's fifth opera, although it really stands on the border between opera and oratio. Suggesting an oratio, the work has only [... more]
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Saul & David
Fine Example of Nielsen at his best: I don't listen to much opera, rather, I approached this recording as a Nielsen completist looking to round out my collection. This fine opera (four acts on 2 CDs) is a good example of Nielsen in the amiable style of [... more]
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