Sallinen: King Lear, Op. 76

Matti Salminen (King Lear), Lilli Paasikivi (Cordelia), Taina Piira (Goneril), Satu Vihavainen (Regan), Petri Lindroos (Albany), Jorma Hynninen (Gloucester), Kai Pitkanen (Cornwall), Aki Alamikkotervo (The Fool), Sauli Tiilikainen (Edgar), Jorma Silvasti (Edmund) & Hannu Forsberg (France)

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Sallinen's timing of the action seems to click into a higher gear forom the end of Act 1 Scene 2 where bastard Edmund 'deposes' Edgar from the Gloucester family inheritance. There is some classy... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

Release Date: 5th May 2015
Catalogue No: ODV4010
Label: Ondine

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Sallinen: King Lear, Op. 76

Matti Salminen (King Lear), Lilli Paasikivi (Cordelia), Taina Piira (Goneril), Satu Vihavainen (Regan), Petri Lindroos (Albany), Jorma Hynninen (Gloucester), Kai Pitkanen (Cornwall), Aki Alamikkotervo (The Fool), Sauli Tiilikainen (Edgar), Jorma Silvasti (Edmund) & Hannu Forsberg (France)
Finnish National Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Okko Kamu (conductor) & Kari Heiskanen (stage director)

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One of the best known Finnish composers internationally, Aulis Sallinen (b.1935) celebrates his 80th birthday in 2015. As a tribute, Ondine is releasing the 2002 production of his latest opera, King Lear with the same cast that premiered the work at the Finnish National Opera in 2000.

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Finnish National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor) & Kari Heiskanen (stage director)

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July 2015

Sallinen's timing of the action seems to click into a higher gear forom the end of Act 1 Scene 2 where bastard Edmund 'deposes' Edgar from the Gloucester family inheritance. There is some classy singing from Salminen in the title-role...Silvasti's disturbed, neurotic Edmund, Jorma Hynninen's less-is-more Glcouester and Lilli Paasikivi's heart-and-soul Cordelia.

August 2015

Matti Salminen’s huge Lear is indeed ‘every inch a king’. The bass shows the thunder he has brought to Wagner roles internationally, but also a Lieder singer’s delicacy when needed. Even when ranting, foolish and profligate, he retains a sense of the king’s former stature and cunning. His reunion duet with the affecting, lovely-sounding Lilli Paasikivi (a mezzo Cordelia, against usual operatic type) is among the opera’s musical highlights. Jorma Silvasti’s twitchily malign Edmund, with agitated lines and high tessitura, calls to mind this fine tenor’s Laca; Edmund gets more solo time than Lear, and becomes the work’s second protagonist.

Sallinen: King Lear, Op. 76

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