For those fans of Scandinavian music for whom Sibelius is too austere, Nielsen is too muscular, Stenhammar is too severe, and Alfvén is too sexy, there's Kurt Atterberg. Younger than any of the others, Atterberg is by far the most conservative whose music was born in the fin de siècle and rarely left home. He started ploughing his furrow in 1910 ...
Known for his symphonies and above all for his sui genesis Cantus Arcticus for taped bird songs and orchestra, Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara has also written a considerable body of vocal music. This disc unites five sets of songs for baritone and orchestra -- the "Three Sonnets" with texts by Shakespeare, the "Five Sonnets to Orpheus" and ...
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