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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Kaija Saariaho: Works for Orchestra
On the occasion of her 60th anniversary in 2012, this 4-CD collector’s box contains recordings of fourteen orchestral works by Grammy-awarded Kaija Saariaho, many of them featuring vocal or instrumental soloists. This specially priced anthology highlights the Finnish composer’s oeuvre from 1986 to 2007, a period that follows the evolution of her compositional style from the early days of her career to more recent times. The featured works have helped to cement Saariaho’s international position as one of the most successful living composers and have garnered her several important awards along the way (Grawemeyer Award 2003, Musical America’s Composer of the Year 2008, MIDEM Classical Award 2009, Wihuri Sibelius Prize 2009, Sonning Music Prize 2011). Kaija Saariaho has been New York Carnegie Hall’s Composer-in-Residence since the beginning of the current 2011–12 Season. These recordings feature such acclaimed soprano soloists as Pia Freund, Anu Komsi and Karita Mattila, as well conductors Christoph Eschenbach with the Orchestre de Paris, Hannu Lintu with the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen with the L.A. Philharmonic, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The recordings have been previously released by Ondine to international popular and critical acclaim. | | | (also available to download from $26.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Karita Mattila: Helsinki Recital
Duparc: | L'Invitation au voyage Romance de Mignon Au pays ou se fait la guerre Chanson triste Phidylé | Dvorak: | Gypsy Melodies (7), Op. 55 (B104) | Rachmaninov: | Sing not, O lovely one (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne), Op. 4 No. 4 Twilight, Op.21 No. 3 Fragment from A. Musset, Op. 21 No. 6 The Muse, Op. 34 No. 1 What happiness, Op. 34 No.12 | Saariaho: | Quatre Instants | trad.: | Minun kultani kaunis on (Ah, How Fair My Sweetheart Is) Finnish Traditional. Encore | Young, V: | Golden Earrings (from the motion picture) Encore |
+ BONUS CD Lieder by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Sibelius, Kuula, Melartin Karita Mattila (soprano) Ilmo Ranta (piano)
DVD + bonus CD This new release pays tribute to Finnish superstar Karita Mattila on the occasion of her 50th birthday in September 2010. This DVD features a recital performance which Karita Mattila gave to a compatriot audience at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, in October 2006. International critics praised the recorded sell-out concerts: “Karita Mattila at her glorious peak… No wonder the Helsinki audience went berserk.” The Daily Telegraph This is the much-awaited first-ever release of Helsinki Recital on DVD; it includes previously unreleased encore material. The original sound recording of Helsinki Recital, released as hybrid SACD in June 2007 garnered the highest accolades throughout the international press, including BBC Music Magazine ‘Song Choice’ and Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’. This product includes a free bonus CD compilation featuring Karita Mattila and pianist Ilmo Ranta with German and Finnish standard repertoire Lied songs. DVD Video [90’39] NTSC colour 16:9 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround PCM Stereo Region Code 0 Available Worldwide “the Mattila of 2006, fearlessly engaged and with a collaborator rather than an accompanist in the diminutive Martin Katz, is quite simply a phenomenon” International Record Review, November 2010 “a thrilling crescendo of the performance art of one of the greatest living sopranos...She feasts on every language she takes on; and her fearless barefoot physicality in Dvorak's Gypsy Songs anticipates an encore in which she all but lap-dances...In summary, then, this is a real treasure trove of delights!” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Live in Helsinki & Sibelius SongsContains ODE9682 and ODE8562
Dvorak: | Mesícku na nebi hlubokém 'Song to the Moon' (from Rusalka) | Gershwin: | Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) | Holländer: | Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt (text: Friedrich Holländer) | Madetoja: | Luulit, ma katselin sua ... Op. 68 No. 3 (You Thought I was Watching You ...) (Text: L. Onerva) | Merikanto, O: | Miksi laulan | Puccini: | Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) | Sibelius: | Flickan kom från sin älsklings möte, Op. 37, No. 5 Illalle, Op. 17 No. 6 (Forsman-Koskimies) Var det en dröm? Op. 37 No. 4 (J.J. Wecksell) Demanten på marssnön, Op. 36 No. 6 (Wecksell) Fågellek, Op. 17, No. 3 Lastu lainehilla, Op. 17, No. 7 Souda, souda, sinisorsa (Swim, duck, swim) (A.V. Forsman-Koskimies) Våren flyktar hastigt, Op. 13 No. 4 (Text: Runeberg) Den första kyssen, Op. 37 No. 1 (Text: J.L. Runeberg) Men min fågel märks dock icke, Op. 36, No. 2 Flickan kom från sin älsklings möte, Op. 37, No. 5 Arioso, Op. 3 (Text: J.L. Runeberg) Fåfäng önskan, Op. 61, No. 7 Six Songs, Op. 88 'Flower Songs' Norden, Op. 90 No. 1 (Runeberg) Kaiutar, Op. 72, No. 4 En slända, Op. 17, No. 5 Svarta rosor, Op. 36 No. 1 (Ernst Josephson) Maj, Op. 57, No. 4 Jubal, Op. 35, No. 1 Ilmo Ranta (piano) | Siegel, R: | Ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin | Strauss, J, II: | Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein (from Die Fledermaus) Mein Herr Marquis (from Die Fledermaus) Klänge der Heimat (from Die Fledermaus) | Styne: | Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend | Verdi: | Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida) Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) | Wagner: | Dich, teure Halle (from Tannhauser) |
On the occasion of its 25th anniversary in 2010, Ondine releases a series of five twofers, containing best-selling titles from the back catalogue. The focus is on five of Ondine’s star artists: sopranos Soile Isokoski and Karita Mattila, baritone Jorman Hynninen, violinist Pella Kuusisto and clarinettist Kari Kriikku. These releases are specially priced (2 CDs for the price of 1) and are limited edition, running through 2010 only. | | | (also available to download from $21.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | The Irresistible Karita Mattila
Celebrated soprano Karita Mattila has proved herself to be irresistible in any musical genre. This mid-price compilation couples live performances of some of the world’s best-loved opera arias together with the Finnish diva’s unique interpretations of songs from Broadway musicals and the Great American Songbook. Winner of the first 'Singer of the World' competition in Cardiff, Karita Mattila is one of the most illustrious soprano singers in the world today. She is recognised as much for the beauty and versatility of her lyric voice as for her extraordinary stage ability. This release marks her 50th birthday in 2010, coinciding with Ondine’s 25th anniversary. “Common to [all tracks] is a warm, enfolding orchestral presence, and that fusion of fearless strength with the ability to come intimately close to the listener which makes Mattila a totally natural crossover artist. You barely notice when she does make the crossing” BBC Music Magazine, July 2010 **** | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Saariaho - Notes On Light, Orion & Mirage
Following the acclaimed 2006 song cycle Quatre Instants, the latest collaboration from star soprano Karita Mattila, and her compatriot Kaija Saariaho, is Mirage, the setting of a trance-induced incantation by the Mexican healer María Sabína (1894-1985). This recording features the work's world première performance from March 13th, 2008 in Paris. The ecstatic 15-minute piece is written for soprano, cello and orchestra, featuring cellist Anssi Karttunen and the Orchestre de Paris Orchestre de Paris under its music director Christoph Eschenbach. Anssi Karttunen performs Notes on Light, the cello concerto that Saariaho wrote for him in 2006. Also featured on this CD is Orion, the largest orchestral work Saariaho has written to date. “Saariaho has always had an extraordinary ear for a beauty of sound, best described in terms of light. …performances have that extra edge which live recording brings.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2008 **** “These performances… are just about ideal as introductions to Saariaho… Anssi Karttunen and Karita Mattila… combine to magical effect in Mirage, where they jointly interpret the transformations of the woman in Mexican shaman-healer María Sabina's ecstatic text (set in English). ..Orion - inspired by the mortal and cosmic aspects of the mythological hunter - deserves to figure on any short list for orchestral masterpiece of the new millennium. Kaleidoscopic orchestral colour, remote from human gesture and drama but rich in intellectual imagination, is a dimension in which Christoph Eschenbach excels, and demonstration recording quality of the kind Ondine supplies is the other notable ingredient in this compelling programme.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2008 “Light is the element that allies Kaija Saariaho to so many of her Nordic peers; that, plus related things such as fire, sky, eclipse and mirage, all of which feature as titles or subtitles in the three pieces recorded here. Musical textures that shimmer, scintillate, explode, darken and extinguish are her bridge between modernism and tradition, and potentially also the listener's path from familiar modes of listening into her fascinating, never vulgarly gratifying, realm of sonic imagination.
These performances from the '100” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Karita Mattila - Fever
| | It's All Right with Me Blue Moon The Man I Love My Favourite Things You Do Something To Me Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Stormy Weather Fever O Pato Corvocado Nice Work if You Can Get It, Love for Sale Black Coffee Lush Life Come Rain or Come Shine |
Karita Mattila (soprano) Fever band & string section & How Many Sisters vocal trio, Kirmo Lintinen “…can Mattila be funky with a jazz ensemble instead of a Strauss of Janácek orchestra behind her? …her performances her grow in confidence from the rather stilted English of "It's all right with me" via a genuine… sexual huskiness in "Fever" to a real trouper's use of musical space and time in "The Man I Love" and the closing number "Come rain or come shine".” Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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“The songs push Mattila to her expressive limits as cries of rapture curdle into shrieks of pain and spasms of rage intrude on erotic memories. Its impact on the audience can be gauged from the near hysteria that erupts at the end…Her accompanist, Martin
Katz, deals superbly with some of the most fearsomely difficult piano writing in the entire song repertoire.” The Guardian “Best of all is the highly expressive Quatre Instants by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, dedicated to Mattila and showing how the singer is prepared to extend her range into new music to quite stunning effect.” Financial Times “Following the Saariaho, passion is torn to tatters in the Rachmaninov group, with perhaps the strongest advocacy of the two Pushkin settings (Oh, do not sing tome and The Muse) since Söderström. Then, instead of making this the final item, Mattila ops for the gentler, even light-hearted, envoi of the Dvorák songs - superbly done, with a real wit and character. Nothing but praise then for the soprano, with generous, untiring and subtly detailed concentration over a longish time span in heavy repertoire, or for her accompanist (Katz is a real listener to what his singer does).” Gramophone Magazine, August 2007 “A frame of applause and ecstatic ovations greet what is one of Karita Mattila's most exciting discs yet… The repertoire takes Mattila's voice into thrilling new regions; and Martin Katz's piano is the voice's equal at every turn.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2007 *****  BBC Music Magazine
Choral & Song Choice - July 2007 |
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| |  | A Five-Star Sibelius Celebration
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| |  | ExcellenceThe Artistry of Karita Mattila
Bernstein: | Somewhere (from West Side Story) | Brahms: | Meine Liebe ist grün, Op. 63 No. 5 Vergebliches Ständchen, Op. 84 No. 4 Der Gang Zum Liebchen, Op. 31 No. 3 | Dvorak: | Mesícku na nebi hlubokém 'Song to the Moon' (from Rusalka) | Kuula: | Aamulaulu, Op. 2 No. 3 Autumn Mood | Loewe, F: | I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady) | Melartin: | Miriam's Songs | Merikanto, O: | Kun päivä paistaa (When the Sun Shines) | Puccini: | Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) | Schubert: | Ave Maria, D839 | Schumann: | Widmung, Op. 25 No. 1 Der Nussbaum, Op. 25 No. 3 Du bist wie eine Blume, Op. 25 No. 24 | Sibelius: | To Evening Did I just Dream? Den första kyssen, Op. 37 No. 1 (Text: J.L. Runeberg) Flickan kom från sin älsklings möte, Op. 37, No. 5 Svarta rosor, Op. 36 No. 1 (Ernst Josephson) | Strauss, J, II: | Klänge der Heimat (from Die Fledermaus) | Verdi: | Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida) |
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| |  | Best of Evergreens
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