Browse: Leiviskä (composer)

Whatever the reason Leiviskä has remained a shadowy figure, conductor Dalia Stasevska has now brought to light three of her orchestral works in f ine performances by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Helvi Leiviskä’s Piano Concerto of 1935 makes no huge stylistic leaps from, say, Brahms’s Second, but builds interesting dialogues for soloist and orchestra. The First Symphony (1947) trades... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Sibelius dominates the international reputation of Finnish music, but as this disc shows there’s plenty more. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…