Browse: Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
This page lists all recordings performed by Pekka Kuusisto.
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Thomas Adès: Märchentänze, Hotel Suite from Powder Her Face, Lieux retrouvé & Dawn Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Tomas Nuñez (cello), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
[Collon] squeezes every drop of sonic brilliance from the scores. Soloists Nuñez and Kuusisto are also equal to the task, and invest their performances with real sensitive and personal interpretation. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Some purists may take exception to Dausgaard’s tempos or dynamics here and there, but the Bach performances, for the most part, are crisp, lively and expressive, and the BIS recording vivid,... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Tüür: Peregrinus Ecstaticus
Christoffer Sunqvist (clarinet), Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Tüür's material is passionately direct, with intricate, trailing lines and passages of ominously intense stasis puncuated by explosive climaxes. Lintu shapes it with spirit - and most convincingly. — More…
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Magnus Lindberg: Violin Concerto, Jubilees & Souvenir
Pekka Kuusisto (violin & director)
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Magnus Lindberg
Lindberg's Violin Concerto of 2006 is the standout work...It manages to balance substance with style, and poetry with virtuosity, in ways that can almost stand comparison with Berg. — More…
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Salonen / Ravel
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk
What Nicolas Altstaedt and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk draw from Esa-Pekka Salonen's multi-layered Cello Concerto is fascinating – an exciting expedition into... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Winner - Assorted Programs
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Sebastian Fagerlund: Darkness in Light
Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
The Violin Concerto Darkness in Light (2012) was composed for and dedicated to Pekka Kuusisto, who gives a dazzlingly virtuoso account of it here…[Ignite (2010)] is an invigorating and virtuosically... — More…
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Occurrence: ISO Project, Vol. 3
Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Mario Caroli (flute), Thurídur Jónsdóttir (tape)
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Daníel Bjarnason
[Bjarnason's] Violin Concerto opens the album with a spectacular performance by soloist Pekka Kuusisto. Intensely virtuosic, the violin is nonetheless always part of a greater whole: from folky,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Sibelius - Works for Violin and Orchestra
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Pekka Kuusisto (violin and conductor)
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First Light: Muhly & Glass Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Nico Muhly (piano)
Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
this album’s sensitive pairing of the two composers’ work confirms their similarities but equally demonstrates how Muhly’s voice is very much his own…Kuusisto, a long-time collaborator of Muhly’s... — More…
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Music of the Spheres
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Sam Swallow (vocalist)
Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Adès's appropriately stratospheric writing is despatched with fearless aplomb by Pekka Kuusisto. The main attractions, though, are an electric Jupiter Symphony (played from memory, and it shows... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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