The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Hannu Lintu – Magnus Lindberg: Aura, Marea & Related Rocks (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:42 minutes | 644 MB | Genre: Classical
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Composer Magnus Lindberg (born 1958) is one of the leading names in today’s contemporary music. This album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra together with its chief conductor Hannu Lintu includes three works by the composer, including Aura, one of the most prominent monumental orchestral works of our era.
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Andre Schuen, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu – Thomas Larcher: Symphony No. 2 “Kenotaph” & Die Nacht der Verlorenen (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:19 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ondine
Austrian composer Thomas Larcher (born 1963) is one of the great symphonists of our era. This album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hannu Lintu includes the first recording of his Second Symphony, “Kenotaph”, and the song cycle Die Nacht der Verlorenen performed by the baritone Andrè Schuen.
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Fumiaki Miura, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hannu Lintu – Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:47 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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It was quite by chance, or happy coincidence, that I came across the name of Fumiaki Miura. Browsing performances of the Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso on YouTube, I stumbled on a version with an unnamed orchestra accompanying a dazzling performance by a young violinist, who seemed to take the concert by storm. It was pretty evident that here was an exceptional talent.
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Stephen Hough, Hannu Lintu, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven: The Piano Concertos (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:52:32 minutes | 3,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion
Hearing Stephen Hough over the course of one of music’s most exhilarating odysseys is not an opportunity to be missed, especially when that odyssey encompasses the five piano concertos of Beethoven. Recorded following a cycle of live performances in Helsinki, this magnificent set is sure to be recognized as one of Hough’s most important recordings.
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Nicolas Altstaedt, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Hannu Lintu – Sebastian Fagerlund: Cello Concerto “Nomade” & Water Atlas (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:17 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS
During the 2010s, Sebastian Fagerlund focused on a series of orchestral compositions and concertos, making one single excursion into vocal music: the opera Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata, 2017). One of his most important works, the opera has influenced his subsequent music, with an increase of long melodic lines alongside his signature rhythmic drive and energy. Dedicated to Nicolas Altstaedt, Fagerlund’s cello concerto Nomade consists of six movements played without a break – a journey by the cellist-wanderer through various landscapes, moods and events depicted by the orchestra.
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Frank Peter Zimmermann, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Hannu Lintu – Magnus Lindberg: Tempus fugit & Violin Concerto No. 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:18 minutes | 472 MB | Genre: Classical
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This new release by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under chief conductor Hannu Lintu includes world premiere recordings of two new works by Magnus Lindberg (b.1958): orchestral work Tempus fugit and Violin Concerto No.2, featuring Frank Peter Zimmermann as its soloist. This release also celebrates the composer’s 60th anniversary.
Violin Concerto No.2, written for Frank Peter Zimmermann, was composed during Lindberg’s tenure as the composer-in-residence for the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This three-movement work demonstrates Lindberg’s lush orchestral style and is reminiscent of the great romantic violin concertos of the past. The concerto has three movements played without a break, with a solo cadenza towards the end of the second movement. The music is at times lucid and bright and at times lusciously sonorous, and the soloist is called upon to display both fireworks and soaring melodic arcs.
Tempus fugit was commissioned by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and premiered at the gala concert for the centenary of Finland’s independence in Helsinki on 6 December 2017. Tempus fugit is a nearly 30-minute orchestral work embracing an Impressionist brightness of colour, melodic lines and a warm Romantic glow. The work is dedicated to Hannu Lintu.
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Angela Hewitt, Hannu Lintu, National Arts Centre Orchestra – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 22 & 24 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:17 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
Hyperion is delighted to present Angela Hewitt’s third volume of Mozart piano concertos. Writing in The Observer, Stephen Pritchard wrote of the first volume that ‘Judging from this first example, it’s going to be a journey as revelatory as her exploration of all the major keyboard works of Bach’.
Here Angela Hewitt is joined by her compatriot National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada and frequent collaborator Hannu Lintu for sparklingly stylish renditions of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos 22 and 24.
Both of these works were written between December 1785 and March 1786. For the first time in a piano concerto orchestration, in No 22 he uses clarinets—an instrument that became a regular member of orchestras only in the 1780s. No 24 is a dark and passionate work, made more striking by its classical restraint, and the final movement, a set of variations, is commonly called ‘sublime’.
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannu Lintu – George Enescu – Symphony No. 2 & Chamber Symphony (2012/2015)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,8 MHz | Time – 01:09:21 minutes | 2,74 GB | Genre: Classical
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:09:21 minutes | 1,12 GB
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A 24-bit recording in DXD (Digital eXtreme Defnition)
There is a pedigreed narrative about the emergence of canonic composers in the eastern half of Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Like social modernisation, cultural renewal during the nineteenth century was supposedly a response to ideas and practices from the charismatic cultural capitals of Western Europe: an appropriation and then a transformation of modalities developed elsewhere.
And because of this response mode, so it is argued, there was initially an element of ‘forms without substance’ about the process. Then, as this response slowly fused with a developing nationalist commitment, music in these regions found its ‘historical moment’, initially in the Czech lands, and then in Hungary, Poland and Romania. When the conditions were right, significant composers, including Béla Bartók, Karol Szymanowski and George Enescu, appeared on cue.
Truls Mork, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannu Lintu – George Enescu – Symphonie Concertante; Symphony No. 1 (2016)
DSF Stereo DSD128, 1 bit/5,6 MHz | Time – 53:56 minutes | 4,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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The final release of the George Enescu (1881-1955) symphony cycle includes two neglected masterpieces: the 1st Symphony filled with youthful energy and the poetic and lyric Symphonie concertante for Cello and Orchestra. The soloist of the Symphony concertante is the award-winning cellist Truls Mørk.
Enescu wrote both of the works at a relatively young age: the Symphonie concertante was written at the age of 20 and the 1st Symphony was premiered when the composer was 25 years of age. Even so, Enescu had already created himself an impressive career as a composer with several large-scale works.
The Ondine recordings with Hannu Lintu and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra have proved to be extremely successful. The first release of the Enescu cycle received Gramophone Awards Nomination 2013. Hannu Lintu and the orchestra also received GRAMMY nomination for their recording of Rautavaara’s Kaivos Opera.
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Anne Sofie von Otter, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu – Sibelius – Tapiola, En Saga & 8 Songs (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:03 minutes | 961 MB | Genre: Classical
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This new release by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu is an all-Sibelius programme featuring internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. The album includes two major tone poems by Jean Sibelius (1865 1957), Tapiola and En Saga, combined with a set of songs orchestrated by Aulis Sallinen (b. 1935) in 2015. Sibelius’ magnificent tone poem Tapiola, written shortly after the 7th Symphony, may be regarded as the culmination of a period that began with the Fifth Symphony, a period where Sibelius created music that grew organically out of tiny germs into huge processes. It was completed in 1926 and remained Sibelius’ last great orchestral work. In Tapiola, Sibelius appears to equate the primacy of nature with the value of art for its own sake, the unattainable truths of which remain uneroded by time or by the shifting ideals of mankind. Sibelius stated to his private secretary: ”My inspiration for Tapiola came wholly from nature, or even more accurately from something inexpressible in words.” The genesis of En Saga, originally premiered in 1892, is also shrouded in mystery, and even later in life Sibelius was reluctant to go into any detail regarding its content. It is among Sibelius earliest orchestral works, and its original title in Swedish, En saga, refers to ancient Nordic tales of heroes and gods. Although En saga is among the most popular works by Sibelius today, the premiere of the work was not a success and Sibelius revised the score in 1902. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Sibelius s birth in 2015 composer Aulis Sallinen (b. 1935) orchestrated a cycle of songs for mezzosoprano Anne Sophie von Otter. This cycle of eight songs contains several less known songs in a cavalcade juxtaposing human emotions and innermost thoughts with the natural environment and experiences in nature. The recent recordings by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Hannu Lintu on Ondine have gathered excellent reviews in the international press.
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Anu Komsi, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu – Lindberg: Accused & Two Episodes (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:17 minutes | 533 MB | Genre: Classical
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This new album by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Hannu Lintu includes two of Magnus Lindberg’s (born 1958) recent compositions featuring soprano Anu Komsi as soloist in Accused. Magnus Lindberg is among the leading figures in today’s contemporary music and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoys a particularly close relationship with the composer.
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Adrian Eröd, Tonkunstler Orchestra, Hannu Lintu, Pierre Bleuse – Larcher: Symphony for Baritone & Orchestra (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:08:05 minutes | 652 MB | Genre: Classical
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Thomas Larcher’s Symphony No. 1 “Alle Tage” and his violin concerto performed by Hannu Lintu and Pierre Bleuse (conductors), Adrian Eröd (baritone) and Benjamin Beilman (violin), and the Tonkunstler Orchestra is being released in February 2022 alongside with two live performances of the concerto for violin and orchestra in Musikverein Wien.
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Сomposer: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Title: Sibelius – 7 Symphonies
Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Radion sinfoniaorkesteri)
Conductor: Hannu Lintu
Director: Laura Joutsi
Performance Place: Helsinki Music Centre
Genre: Classical
Label: © Arthaus Musik GmbH
Release Date: 2015
Quality: Blu-Ray
Duration: ~ 07:33:00 (Symphonies, Introductions) + 02:20:00 (Documentary)
Video: MPEG-4 AVC ~23000 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: Finnish LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio: Finnish DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / ~3800 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitle (Symphonies, Introductions, Documentary): English, German, French, Korean, Japanese
Size: 41.2 GB + 41.1 GB + 39.9 GB
With his seven symphonies the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius marks a high point in the symphonic repertoire of the 20th century. The music evokes the ghostliness of the Finnish landscape, carries an inner strength and depth and proves itself full of technical fi nesse that still poses a challenge for both conductors and performers. For Sibelius “a symphony is not a ‘composition’ in the ordinary sense. Rather, it is a declaration of faith at different stages of one’s life.”
On the occasion of Jean Sibelius’ 150th birthday this DVD edition offers the live recordings of the composer’s seven symphonies by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the new Helsinki Music Centre under the direction of Hannu Lintu. Each symphony is preceded by a documentary and an introduction, giving a new and modern perspective to the legendary Finnish composer and his symphonies.
Special Features:
SORT OF SIBELIUS! 8 Fictional Short Documentaries
“Sort of Sibelius!” gives a different perspective on Jean Sibelius. The focus is not on the music, but on the person. The genre is fictional short documentary with both acted drama and animation tricks. The commentator is Kaija Saariaho, a composer herself. Other interviewees are experts from various fields of life; a doctor, a couples therapist, a wine connoisseur and a wilderness guide to name a few.
Introductions for each symphony. These documentary sections of the programs, hosted and narrated by Hannu Lintu, the conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, can also been seen in an hourlong separate program.
A detailed book about Sibelius’ life and work.
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