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Sebastian Fagerlund: Isola

Sebastian Fagerlund: Isola


Fagerlund:

Clarinet Concerto

Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet)

Partita for string orchestra and percussion

Isola for symphony orchestra


Born in 1972, Sebastian Fagerlund was recently described as ‘yet another obscenely talented young musician from Finland’ (MusicWeb International). The musicians of the eminent Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra revel in the composer’s striking gift for orchestration, in performances supervised by the rapidly emerging young conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, The clarinettist Christoffer Sundqvist’s playing served as inspiration for the composer as he wrote his colourful and eventful Clarinet Concerto.

Partita is a work consisting of three movements with titles that mirror the composer’s concerns: Cerimonia (Ceremony), Risonanza (Resonance) and Preghiera (Prayer).

Closing the disc is Isola (Island) which sprang from a visit by the composer to an island in the Turku archipelago formerly used to segregate lepers and the mentally ill from the rest of society - an ‘isle of the dead’ which today is an idyllic holiday location. A similar alternation of darkness and light, of movement and motionlessness, of violence and sensitivity, permeates Fagerlund’s tone poem.

“Dedicated performances and fine recording quality give the music every chance to speak.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2011

“a composer who can side with his great countryman Sibelius without the slightest need for self-protective irony. These are three strong, freshly poetic pieces, that make themselves understood directly without any kind of verbal conceptual help - and yet which also reward repeated hearings...Full marks to clarinettist Christopher Sundqvist, the Gothenburg Symphony and Dima Slobodeniouk for putting all this music across with such power, intelligence and refinement” BBC Music Magazine, September 2011 *****

Super Audio CD

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BIS - BISSACD1707

(SACD)

$16.75

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Fagerlund: Döbeln

Fagerlund: Döbeln

An opera in two acts. Libretto by Jusa Peltoniemi


Anu Komsi (soprano), Annika Mylläri (soprano), Lasse Penttinen (tenor), Sören Lillkung (baritone) & Robert McLoud (bass)

West Coast Kokkola Opera & Kokkola Opera Festival Orchestra, Sakari Oramo

BIS release a world première recording of an opera by an emerging Finnish composer, written in 2009 and focussing on Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general during the Swedish-Russian war which in 1809 resulted in Sweden losing Finland. The opera is sung in Swedish and Finnish, and the booklet includes a complete libretto with a parallell English translation. This SACD includes an insert featuring photos from the first production of the opera, and with a 60-page booklet - all enclosed in a card board slip case.

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BIS - BISSACD1780

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