Elina Vähälä, Jonathan Roozeman, Kymi Sinfonietta, Olari Elts – Kalevi Aho: Violin Concerto No. 2 & Cello Concerto No. 2 (2023)
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Born in the United States in Iowa City, Iowa, Vähälä began violin studies at the age of three, following her family’s return to Finland, at the Lahti conservatory. Her teachers at Lahti included Seppo Reinikainen and Pertti Sutinen. She also studied at the Kuhmo Violin School with Zinaida Gilels, Ilya Grubert and Pavel Vernikov. At the Sibelius Academy Vähälä’s teacher was Tuomas Haapanen.
Read moreEldbjørg Hemsing, Wiener Symphoniker, Olari Elts – Borgström & Shostakovich: Violin Concertos (2018)
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Eldbjørg Hemsing has been a household name in her native Norway since childhood and made her solo debut with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 11. During and after her studies in Vienna, she has absorbed repertoire ranging from Beethoven to Tan Dun, a composer she has collaborated with on several projects in both Europe and Asia.
Read moreAntwerp Symphony Orchestra & Olari Elts – Kalevi Aho: Double & Triple Concertos (2021)
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Concertos for cor anglais are few and far between, and harp concertos aren’t very common either. In combining the two, Kalevi Aho has come up with a true rarity – possibly the only double concerto in existence for these two instruments. Composed in 2014, the work was commissioned by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra for two of its solo players: Anneleen Lenaerts and Dimitri Mestdag, who also perform it here. The work is characteristically eclectic, making the most of the sonic possibilities of the solo instruments, but also of the orchestral palette.
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