Olli Virtaperko: Romer's Gap

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Amplified cello and orchestra sounds iffy on paper, but in practice there’s something rather striking about this rock-meets-classical concerto. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: ODE1305-2
Label: Ondine
Length: 71 minutes

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Virtaperko: Romer's Gap (Version for Amplified Cello & Sinfonietta)

Work length28:43

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Perttu Kivilaakso (cello)
Jyväskylä Sinfonia
Ville Matvejeff
Recorded: 21-22 November 2016
Recording Venue: Martti Talvela Hall, Mikkeli, Finland

Romer's Gap (Version for Amplified Cello & Sinfonietta): I.

Track length10:20

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Romer's Gap (Version for Amplified Cello & Sinfonietta): II.

Track length11:02

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Romer's Gap (Version for Amplified Cello & Sinfonietta): III.

Track length7:21

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Virtaperko: Multikolor

Work length16:39

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Joonatan Rautiola (baritone saxophone)
Jyväskylä Sinfonia
Ville Matvejeff

Virtaperko: Ambrosian Delights (Version for Knifonium & Chamber Orchestra)

Work length27:05

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Jonte Knif (knifonium)
Jyväskylä Sinfonia
Ville Matvejeff
Recorded: 31 March–2 April 2017
Recording Venue: Hannikaissali Hall at JAMK University Music Campus, Jyväskylä, Finland

Ambrosian Delights (Version for Knifonium & Chamber Orchestra): I. Fat & Filth - Cadenza

Track length6:56

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Ambrosian Delights (Version for Knifonium & Chamber Orchestra): II. Ambrosian Delights

Track length5:30

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Ambrosian Delights (Version for Knifonium & Chamber Orchestra): III. Passacaglia

Track length4:34

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Ambrosian Delights (Version for Knifonium & Chamber Orchestra): IV. More Is More

Track length10:05

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This exciting new release of contemporary music includes three new concertos by Finnish composer Olli Virtaperko (b. 1973). The concertos are combining multiple styles from Baroque to prog jazz as well as different performance practices. Romers Gap is a concerto for electrically amplified cello featuring as soloist Perttu Kivilaakso, best known as lead cellist in the multi-million selling rock band Apocalyptica. Ambrosian Delights is a concerto for the knifonium, a vacuum-tube-based analogue synthesiser created by Jonte Knif. Multikolor, written for Joonatan Rautiola, is a single-movement work for baritone sax and small chamber orchestra. All three works are recorded by the Jyväskylä Sinfonia under conductor Ville Matvejeff. The three concertos on this album were written within a relatively short space of time, between 2013 and 2016. They reflect basic themes in my music in different ways, including my relationship to tradition and the problems of combining multiple styles and performance practises, composer Olli Virtaperko describes in his liner notes, and continues: What links these three concertos is that the solo parts were customised according to the technical and expressive potential of the soloists who premiered and recorded them. I collaborated closely with the soloist in each case. - - The past four-year period has offered me a fascinating journey into new musical colours and the borderland between acoustic and amplified music with all the possibilities and challenges that this entails'. Olli Virtaperko has enjoyed a multi-faceted career. He studied composition, the Baroque cello and early music performance practice at the University of Edinburgh and at the Sibelius Academy, and on the other hand he was also a vocalist in one of Finlands most popular rock groups, Ultra Bra. Virtaperkos musical background feeds directly into his work as a composer, which includes heavy-duty solo concertos and orchestral works but also a number of works for Baroque and Renaissance period instruments and for his own early music group, Ensemble Ambrosius.

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January 2018

Amplified cello and orchestra sounds iffy on paper, but in practice there’s something rather striking about this rock-meets-classical concerto.

January 2018

Among younger Finnish composers, Olli Virtaperko (b.1973) certainly ranks among the most striking, as it witnessed by the three concertos on this first disc to be dedicated to his music…As to the performers, Jonte Knif proves the very image of a virtuoso on the instrument which he himself created.

December 2017

The vivid recording expertly balances the amplified, electronic and acoustic sounds. A disc for the open-minded and open-hearted, and especially for those with present (or previous) progressive rock and jazz leanings.

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