ABCD 245 Dedications / Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Juha Kangas, conductor

"Anyone interested in string music of the twenty-first century will want to listen to this disc... Solemnity-Euphony, composed in 2002, is "a combination of ‘festive ceremony' and ‘beauty of spirit,'" the composer (Nordgren) wrote. This fourteen minute work is pregnant with tension and drama, some of it created by an extensive use of string tremolos. This is an impressive work and the Ostrobothnian's perform it with verve and passion.... Musica appassionata alternates moments of intense upheaval with meditative interludes. Vasks sustains a tension that never loses its grip on the listener...Swedish composer Anders Eliasson (b.1947) has discovered a new tonality that program annotator Christoph Schluren describes as "free floating, continually-flowing and never arriving, one that produces no inherent field of gravity."...The Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra perform with energy and passion. The sound is very close, but in SACD it widens out and the added depth mitigates the acidity of the high strings, so prevalent in these compositions. A disc for discerning listeners who want to hear something contemporary and new."
Robert Moon / AUDIOPHILE AUDITION!

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