Fagerlund & Aho: Bassoon Concertos

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A truly captivating disc…Bram van Sambeek takes everything in his evidently extensive stride. The agility, conviction, impish humour and searing seriousness all stem from a remarkably rounded... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Dec 2016
Catalogue No: BIS2206
Label: BIS
Length: 76 minutes

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Fagerlund: Bassoon Concerto, 'Mana'

Work length19:15

Album only

$5.15

$7.00

Bram van Sambeek (bassoon)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Okko Kamu
Recorded: January 2015
Recording Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland

Fagerlund: Woodlands

Work length11:31

$2.05

$3.85

$5.25

Bram van Sambeek (bassoon)
Recorded: November 2015
Recording Venue: Studio 2, Sveriges Radio, Stockholm, Sweden

Aho: Solo V

Work length10:23

$1.50

$3.85

$5.25

Bram van Sambeek (bassoon)
Recorded: November 2015
Recording Venue: Studio 2, Sveriges Radio, Stockholm, Sweden

Aho: Bassoon Concerto

Work length35:00

$6.05

$10.35

$14.00

Bram van Sambeek (bassoon)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Dima Slobodeniouk
Recorded: January 2016
Recording Venue: Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland

I. Andante

Track length11:24

$2.05

$3.85

$5.25

II. Vivace

Track length5:04

$1.00

$1.30

$1.75

III. Passacaglia (Adagio) e Cadenza

Track length9:32

$1.50

$2.60

$3.50

IV. Presto

Track length9:00

$1.50

$2.60

$3.50

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The Finnish composer Kalevi Aho and his younger colleague and compatriot Sebastian Fagerlund have both received international recognition for their masterful treatment of large orchestral forces. This they have demonstrated in purely orchestral as well as in concertante works – Aho has written 26 concertos to date (most of them in his monumental project to compose a concerto for each of the main orchestral instruments), and Fagerlund’s concertos for clarinet and for violin have been released by BIS to critical acclaim. On this disc the two composers appear side by side with their respective concertos for bassoon and orchestra, works that to a certain extent illustrate different approaches to the concerto genre. If the Romantic concept of the concerto was that of a struggle between the soloist and orchestra, Fagerlund in his Mana (2014) instead gives the bassoon the role of a spiritual leader, conjuring up new sound worlds from the orchestra. (In Swedish – Fagerlund’s mother tongue – ‘mana’ is a verb that suggests invocation; in Finnish the word alludes to exorcism). Kalevi Aho, on the other hand, has endeavoured to enrich and expand the solo instrument’s sonic and expressive possibilities through his use of orchestration and describes his concerto as ‘quite symphonic in character’. Soloist in both works is Bram van Sambeek, the first bassoonist ever to receive the prestigious Dutch Music Prize and the musician for whom Fagerlund composed Mana as well as the solo piece Woodlands, written in preparation for the concerto. Kalevi Aho also contributes a substantial and dramatic solo piece, Solo V, which makes use of multiphonics as well as microintervals.

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February 2017

A truly captivating disc…Bram van Sambeek takes everything in his evidently extensive stride. The agility, conviction, impish humour and searing seriousness all stem from a remarkably rounded musicianship: taste and personality in abundance, but at the same time strongly focussed. I’ve a feeling composers will soon be queueing up to write for him

February 2017

Mana is an imaginative fantasia…[and] its dedicatee Bram van Sambeek relishes its demands and is given wonderful support by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Okko Kamu…[Aho’s Bassoon Concerto] is beautifully played…in a nuanced and balanced account

The Classical Reviewer 5th February 2017

All in all this is a very welcome release of works that every admirer of these fine composers will want to hear, especially with bassoon playing of such a high order.

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