【代購】阿侯: 吉他協奏曲 / 法國號五重奏 / 弦樂對位法 / 伊斯莫．埃斯卡林連 吉他 / 史托加德 指揮 / 拉普蘭室內管弦樂團 (SACD)

阿侯: 吉他協奏曲 / 法國號五重奏 / 弦樂對位法 / 伊斯莫.埃斯卡林連 吉他 / 約翰.史托加德 指揮 /拉普蘭室內管弦樂團 (SACD)

作曲家: Kalevi Aho
演出者: Lapland Chamber Orchestra
指揮家: Ismo Eskelinen guitar
樂團: Lapland Chamber Orchestra

Orchestral and chamber music by the prolific Kalevi Aho

Although the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho is best known as a symphonist, his constantly expanding catalogue includes numerous concertos as well as countless chamber works and arrangements of works by other composers. This disc brings together works from these three genres. The Guitar Concerto, dedicated to Ismo Eskelinen, posed many challenges for Aho, who is not a guitarist himself. It is a seven-movement work exploring the different ways the guitar can be used – sometimes with far from traditional techniques – and exploring its sonic possibilities. The quintet for Horn and String quartet was commissioned by Ilkka Puputti, who had previously premièred Aho's Solo X for horn. Particularly demanding for the soloist, the quintet explores various atmospheres, in turns mysterious, whimsical, dramatic and dance-like. Contrapunctus XIV from Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of the Fugue was left unfinished owing to the composer's declining health. As he was dissatisfied with previous attempts to complete it, Aho decided to write his own, aiming to remain true to Bach's style. This completion exists in several versions, including the one for string orchestra heard here, expertly performed by the Lapland Chamber Orchestra conducted by John Storgards.

SACD曲目:

Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) 
1-7) Conce rto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra (2018) 28'27 
Ismo Eskelinen guitar 
8-11) quintet for Horn and String qua rtet (2019) 23'07 
Members of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra: Ilkka Pupu tti horn Abel Puustinen & Iida Mojzer violins Taru Lehto viola · Lauri Ange rvo cello Johann Sebastian Bach (168 5—1750), completed by Kalevi Aho (2011) 
12) Contrapunctus XIV for string orchestra 12'37 
from Die Kunst der Fuge 

TT: 65'09