Kalevi Aho: Piano Works

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Release Date: 10th Mar 2017
Catalogue No: NEOS10915
Label: Neos
Length: 74 minutes

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Aho: Sonata for Piano

Work length16:38

$4.00

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Andreas Skouras

I. —

Track length3:50

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II. Allegro molto

Track length3:14

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III. Tranquillo molto

Track length9:34

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Aho: Solo II

Work length13:25

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Andreas Skouras

Tranquillo

Track length3:22

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Allegro vivace

Track length10:03

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Aho: Halla

Work length8:24

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Anna Kalandarishvili, Andreas Skouras

Aho: Sonatina for Piano

Work length7:12

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Andreas Skouras

I. Toccata. Presto

Track length1:39

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II. Andante

Track length3:33

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III. Prestissimo

Track length2:00

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Aho: Small Piano Pieces (3)

Work length4:45

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Andreas Skouras

No. 1, Maestoso

Track length2:34

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No. 2, Tranquillo

Track length1:01

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No. 3, Maestoso

Track length1:10

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Aho: Easy Piano Pieces for Children (2)

Work length2:13

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Andreas Skouras

No. 2, Allegretto

Track length0:32

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No. 1, Andante

Track length1:41

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Aho: Preludes (19)

Work length21:32

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Andreas Skouras

No. 1, Tranquillo

Track length1:50

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No. 2, Allegro vivace

Track length0:49

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No. 5, Grave

Track length3:50

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No. 9, Lento assai

Track length2:10

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No. 10, Prestissimo

Track length1:21

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No. 11, Andante

Track length0:53

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No. 14, Grave

Track length1:34

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No. 16, Moderato

Track length2:02

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No. 17, Andante - Allegro - Adagio

Track length3:01

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No. 18, Lento assai, esitante

Track length2:57

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No. 19, Tranquillo

Track length1:05

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Kalevi Aho is a true giant amongst composers of our time, both in terms of craftsmanship and in his sonic and formal imagination. Although his works are not performed as much internationally as some of his colleagues, he is without doubt Finland’s most brilliant symphonic and operatic composer working today.

Aho was born in 1949 in Forsa, southern Finland and learnt the mandolin and violin at the age of nine, and also began composing at that age. During his youth he loved the great romantic symphonists, and during his school days he wrote several string quartets and sonatas for solo violin, as well as his first orchestral piece – all without any instruction, directly from what he imagined in his inner ear.

Complete mastery of technique, especially of the full orchestra, and free flight of the imagination are hallmarks of his oeuvre, revealed from piece to piece in extremely different facets. As of this writing, Aho has completed sixteen symphonies which can be regarded as the creative core of his oeuvre. He is no less significant as an operatic composer, but so far none of his operas has been released on CD.

The harpsichordist and pianist Andreas Skouras has now taken on the production of Kalevi Aho, presenting a brilliant first recording of this music for piano solo – as many-sided as it is unpredictable, crossing borders in pianism, realised in a sovereign manner in terms of content and form. Skouras has provided the following commentary on the individual compositions: “The piano works of Kalevi Aho are penetrated by his predominantly orchestral way of thinking. The polyrhythms, the juxtaposition of several layers containing different events and the resultant sonic image frequently correspond to that of a large orchestra.

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