Susanna Mälkki

Lotusland - Symphonic Works by Arvid Kleven

Stavanger Symphony Orchestra

Symphonic Fantasy, Op. 15

Skogens sovn (The Sleeping Forest), Op. 9

Lotusland, Op. 5

Sinfonia libera in due parti, Op. 16 (reconstructed by R. Ronnes)

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

《Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Rakastava & Lemminkäinen》以芬兰传奇作曲家西贝柳斯的音乐棱镜，折射出北欧史诗的深邃意境。卡累利亚组曲以铜管与木管的对话构建层叠音景，仿佛冰川与森林在弦乐织体中碰撞出自然史诗；《Rakastava》则剥离恢弘框架，用极简弦乐勾勒出私密的情感褶皱，宛如极夜中跳动的烛火。指挥家与赫尔辛基爱乐乐团在《Lemminkäinen》中施展魔法，四则神话场景通过渐变的动态张力苏醒——从竖琴涟漪到定音鼓雷暴，每个休止符都暗藏叙事伏笔。这张唱片既是音响工程师雕琢的空间诗学，更是对西贝柳斯民族精神密码的当代破译，适合在暮色渐浓时开启一场浸入式北欧音画漫游。

Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Rakastava & Lemminkäinen

Bela Bartok

The Wooden Prince and The Miraculous Mandarin are – together with the earlier opera Bluebeard’s Castle – the only stage works by Béla Bartók. They stand apart from the more abstract and often more explicitly folk-related character of the music that we primarily associate with the composer. They are nevertheless major achievements that in different ways highlight Bartók’s imaginative use of the modern orchestra. Set in an enchanted forest, The Wooden Prince is based on a fairytale-like libretto featuring a prince and princess. The two are subjected to various trials, but at the end of the ballet they are allowed to come together and live – we assume – happily ever after. In stark contrast, The Miraculous Mandarin takes place in an urban brothel where three robbers force a girl to seduce men so that they can overpower and kill them. The subject-matter and the erotic qualities of much of the music caused a scandal at the première in 1926, and for a long time the score was primarily performed in the shorter concert version heard on the present release, the first from the team of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and Susanna Mälkki, the orchestra’s chief conductor since 2016.

Bartók: The Wooden Prince, Op. 13, Sz. 60 & The Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Op. 19, Sz. 73

Pulkkis: Enchanted Garden / Flute Concerto / Symphonic Dali

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Lotusland - Symphonic Works by Arvid Kleven

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